From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751190AbWFTOvI (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:51:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751193AbWFTOvI (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:51:08 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:9964 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751190AbWFTOvH (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:51:07 -0400 Subject: Re: Porting BSD console screensavers to Linux From: Alan Cox To: Tony Rowe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060620144032.GA1919@chebucto.ns.ca> References: <20060620144032.GA1919@chebucto.ns.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:06:16 +0100 Message-Id: <1150815976.11062.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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