From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 16 20:54:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08932 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 20:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wcc.wcc.net (wcc.wcc.net [208.6.232.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA08761 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 03:53:49 GMT (envelope-from piquan@wcc.wcc.net) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tnt248.wcc.net [208.10.139.248]) by wcc.wcc.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA07057; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 22:49:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01213; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 22:53:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 22:53:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804160353.WAA01213@detlev.UUCP> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Subject: Re: syscons.c and graphical screensavers From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [following up to -current] > I changed current's src/sys/i386/isa/syscons.c to put the "should we > stop the screensaver" check before the "should we just return" check. > This will make graphical screensavers possible - but BE WARNED that to > the best of my knowledge syscons.c still does not handle console > switches properly when a graphical screensaver is active, especially > not switches to whichever console X is using. I'll see to that RSN. The screensaver needs to properly handle shutdown before the switch, but that's not hard. If you're writing a graphical screensaver, talk to me and I'll get you my template. -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message