From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Sun Oct 11 17:33:48 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7272A110FD for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 17:33:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrews.freebsd.emails@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x232.google.com (mail-io0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4A9EF05 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 17:33:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrews.freebsd.emails@gmail.com) Received: by ioii196 with SMTP id i196so132806067ioi.3 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 10:33:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=XIIpLKzMqpQGsaKq+FmycUqDxcNJMscLwLs4J4cOyBc=; b=P+gpwGSR6tXvxRizsVANswp1GhkMfuROzJN4+FMlkBZURgsvWSO//a46DaXT6s7NGO d3oDRcc/dH9hVfPTuq/eqGipLnTIMch7CywTMcH3K0gnzD/e67kecpBDkMGy7gHjoenG BwqTnuJ0ill28EtKGISB8cE8NWppH3MaVThB7I86u6aBAt4YDY+ZVGK4TwVphLfVb5of QTRWbY66GqURvs3jiubXJ5/7LP0hOlnHUKf28gKLZGcVcv5QBFRsg3E8OIWH/t+goeU4 EzedpfWRcD9vFr2U2avZqx5CcPgt+c7gQNu2fFa1Ld37d8iQvapTYQZ22Sihgx36oKJ3 5KKQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.33.17 with SMTP id h17mr22148398ioh.108.1444584827992; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 10:33:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.141.15 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 10:33:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 04:33:47 +1100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Trying to edit daemon.c to work on iMac From: Andrew Clancy To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 17:33:49 -0000 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@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. > > >