Trying to edit daemon.c to work on iMac

[Andrew Clancy]

Typo in the subject line. Should have been daemon_saver.c

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:19 AM, Andrew Clancy <
andrews.freebsd.emails at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have acquired an old iMac and installed FreeBSD 10.1 RELEASE on it. I am
> a programming novice and have been searching google for a way to get a
> console screensaver for the iMac.
>
> I came across an old post dated
>
> *Thu Dec 20 10:20:50 PST 2007 *
> I followed the thread but am still a bit confused. The following is taken
> from a post on
>
>
> *Thu Dec 20 21:02:48 PST 2007*
>
> >* It already works with:
> *>*     device    splash
> *>*     device    blank_saver
> *
>   An unexpected syscons success story :) I got a bit excited and tried
> to build daemon saver, only to hit a few compile errors and unresolved
> symbols. Easy to fix though.
>
>   With all this syscons excitement, the other obvious piece missing is
> the s/w mouse cursor. It's possible to select regions, though useless
> since the cursor can't be seen. Another piece that would be easy to fix
> for those sufficiently motivated.
>
>
> I am wondering what the compile errors were? The Daemon saver is on all of my FreeBSD systems
>  and would like to get it working on the iMac as well.
>
> I can read C but am new to modifying parts of FreeBSD.
>
> any help would be appreciated.
>
> Andrew.
>
>
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