Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-03 Thread Jan Grant
Very neat. [forgive flippancy] On Wed, 2 May 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > The screensaver isn't bad, and it gets pretty trippy when you focus at > infinity and let the 3D-Illusions (TM) effect set in. Argh! I've just gone blind. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.br

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread John
This looks pretty good, and it seems to be getting good comments. It seems that you either need to file a PR or have a committer volunteer to get it in the tree. Any takers? I may have some spare time later this weekend. -john - Andy Sloane's Original Message - > Hello, > > I just wro

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread John Baldwin
On 02-May-01 Andy Sloane wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:58:06PM -0700, Nick Sayer wrote: >> You might consider trying the apm_saver module instead, especially on >> laptops. I have found instances in the past of monitor/BIOS/video >> combinations where green didn't do the right thing but tha

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread Andy Sloane
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:58:06PM -0700, Nick Sayer wrote: > You might consider trying the apm_saver module instead, especially on > laptops. I have found instances in the past of monitor/BIOS/video > combinations where green didn't do the right thing but that the APM got > right. Both apm_saver

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:27:46AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 02-May-01 Andy Sloane wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just wrote a new syscons screensaver which I think is much more > > interesting than the other ones, while still being relatively easy on the > > CPU (much less CPU intensive th

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > However, I'm quite fond of the green_saver module, which shuts down my > monitor after 15 minutes. Other screensavers are really just for > entertainment; I think green_saver is the only one that serves a really > good purpose. Perhaps we should make

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread Nick Sayer
Andrew Hesford wrote: > However, I'm quite fond of the green_saver module, which shuts down my > monitor after 15 minutes. Other screensavers are really just for > entertainment; I think green_saver is the only one that serves a really > good purpose. You might consider trying the apm_saver modu

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread Andy Sloane
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:42:01PM +0200, Torbjorn Kristoffersen wrote: > What about implementing some code from green_saver into his saver to > enable DPMS support? And have a sysctl value to set the delay after the > green saver will begin :) Maybe there's a better way, to let his > beastie_save

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread Andrew Hesford
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:42:01PM +0200, Torbjorn Kristoffersen wrote: > > > > However, I'm quite fond of the green_saver module, which shuts down my > > monitor after 15 minutes. Other screensavers are really just for > > entertainment; I think green_saver is the only one that serves a really >

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread Torbjorn Kristoffersen
> > However, I'm quite fond of the green_saver module, which shuts down my > monitor after 15 minutes. Other screensavers are really just for > entertainment; I think green_saver is the only one that serves a really > good purpose. > What about implementing some code from green_saver into his sav

RE: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread John Baldwin
On 02-May-01 Andy Sloane wrote: > Hello, > > I just wrote a new syscons screensaver which I think is much more > interesting than the other ones, while still being relatively easy on the > CPU (much less CPU intensive than "fire", anyway). Please review it and > let me know what you think. > >

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread Andy Sloane
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:16:00AM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote: > The screensaver isn't bad, and it gets pretty trippy when you focus at > infinity and let the 3D-Illusions (TM) effect set in. If I were to make > one suggestion, it would be to animate Beastie, so that he walks around > the screen

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-01 Thread Andrew Hesford
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:50:00AM -0500, Andy Sloane wrote: > Hello, > > I just wrote a new syscons screensaver which I think is much more > interesting than the other ones, while still being relatively easy on the > CPU (much less CPU intensive than "fire", anyway). Please review it and > let