From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 21 02:41:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40BC16A468; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:41:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from smtpoutm.mac.com (smtpoutm.mac.com [17.148.16.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C369313C458; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:41:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (asmtp008-s [10.150.69.71]) by smtpoutm.mac.com (Xserve/smtpout016/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id lBL2fa2E003476; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:41:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/asmtp008/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id lBL2fYL2011892 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:41:35 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <1D0E3C1C-F8C1-4FBC-96DF-DCA56DBC3FA7@mac.com> From: Marcel Moolenaar To: grehan@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <476B25B2.70800@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:41:32 -0800 References: <9cf5ced20712201020l54616c33sebef49df7d53852a@mail.gmail.com> <476B25B2.70800@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screensaver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:41:37 -0000 On Dec 20, 2007, at 6:32 PM, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi David, > >> I don't want to burn in the LCD of my iBook g4, so I'm trying to >> figure out >> how to enable the screen saver. >> I've tried using vidcontrol -t 1, but it never engages the console >> screen >> saver. > > There aren't any screensavers built. When I first did the syscons > code, I looked at a few and they wanted to do PC-style video mode > changing. The ones that didn't (blank) were then dependent on > splash, and I think my patience ran out around there. > > I'm sure something could be tweaked to work. It already works with: device splash device blank_saver FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com