Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:29:07 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments? Message-ID: <200107260729.QAA25125@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:05:07 MST." <3B5E7DB3.97656D3C@mindspring.com> References: <200107241207.VAA14339@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <3B5E7DB3.97656D3C@mindspring.com>
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>> I propose to have user-land screen savers instead of KLD >> screen savers. > >[ ... "performance degradation" ... ] > >[ ... "file access" ... ] > >I don't see either of these as being compelling arguments >in favor of a user space implementation; I guess this means >you want to do file access in your screen saver(s). Both points/complaints/requests have been raised several times in our mailing lists in the past. (Sorry, I don't keep copies.) Some people don't like cputime eaten up by the screen saver in the kernel... Some peopel want to write "interesting" screen savers... >Now if you could run Windows screen saver modules, you >might have a good argument for change, above and beyond >"change for the sake of change". Personally I am not interested in fancy screen savers :-) But, just want to keep things tidy and keep the system running smoothly. By moving much of the screen saver support from the console driver to the user-land... Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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