Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Tue, 28 May 1996 09:08:00 +0200 | Subject | Re: Other Screen Savers. |
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On 24 May 96 at 14:01, Patrick Edwards wrote:
> I know people are already complaining about Kernel bloat (ie the > CONFIG_RANDOM debate). But would it be possible to add extra screen savers > into the kernel (as optional modules only). For example package the LOCKVC > 1.9 (c) 1994,1995 by Matthias Straub. Or the twinkling stars from > FreeBSD.
Originally screen savers should protect the valuable colour screens. Meanwhile it seems a screen saver has to attract the attention to idle computers. Thus I'd suggest to either enable VESA power saving (the usual colour monitors consume about 100Watts, a harddisk maybe only 10), or simply say "Come here and work with me" ;-)
If someone really likes my "VGASAV35" (DOS TSR) from garbo.uwasa.fi, I'll supply the assembler source (yuk!)...
> > Now i'm willing to write these myself if no one else is willing. > But I need a little push in the right direction so I know where to start. > I'll also need to ask someone questions about how to program this > correctly as possible cause I've never do any hacking in the kernel > source. > > reply-to: pje120@cs.usask.ca
Ulrich
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