From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Tony Rowe <ay986@chebucto.ns.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Porting BSD console screensavers to Linux
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:06:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150815976.11062.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060620144032.GA1919@chebucto.ns.ca>
Ar Maw, 2006-06-20 am 11:40 -0300, ysgrifennodd Tony Rowe:
> Hello,
>
> I have been wondering about this for a few years. Are there any
> [non-locking] screensavers for the Linux console like 'warp_saver' which
> is implemented in the BSD kernel I think? Could the BSD syscons
> screensavers be implemented in the Linux kernel? The warp_saver.c is
> included below.
Why do it in the kernel ? It would seem to be far more sensible to use a
callout via udev or similar so that savers could live in user space
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2006-06-20 14:40 Porting BSD console screensavers to Linux Tony Rowe
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