Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:42:02 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help writing a screen saver module Message-ID: <20001107144202.B4569@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpofzrww7o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" on Tue Nov 7 18:03:39 GMT 2000 References: <3A06B7A7.7665C46A@cequrux.com> <xzpofzrww7o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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In the last episode (Nov 07), Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: > Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> writes: > > I am trying to write a screen saver module that, when it kicks in, > > will switch to the first console, and then, if a key is pressed, > > will switch back to the one that was previously active. The idea is > > that the first console has something useful running on it, > > typically a tail -f of the logs. > > Switching consoles causes syscons to stop the screensaver, which > causes your code to try to switch back to the original console, which > causes syscons to stop the screensaver since seems to be running. In > other words, Don't Do That. Sorry. You can make it look like you're switched to vty 0, by making your screen_saver() function simply copy the contents of vty 0 to screen memory on every update. Just make sure both vtys are the same size first... -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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