Kazu writes:
The VESA support code requires vm86 support. Make sure your kernel
configuration file has the following line.
options "VM86"
If you want to statically link the VESA support code to the kernel,
add the following option to the kernel configuration file.
options "VESA"
The vidcontrol command now accepts the following video mode names:
VESA_132x25, VESA_132x43, VESA_132x50, VESA_132x60, VESA_800x600
The VESA_800x600 mode is a raster display mode. The 80x25 text will
be displayed on the 800x600 screen. Useful for some laptop computers.
vidcontrol accepts the new `-i <info>' option, where <info> must be
either `adapter' or `mode'. When the `-i adapter' option is given,
vidcontrol will print basic information (not much) on the video
adapter. When the `-i mode' option is specified, vidcontrol will
list video modes which are actually supported by the video adapter.
Submitted by: Kazutaka YOKOTA yokota@FreeBSD.ORG
savers are also modified so that they behave in the same way as the
blank saver on MDA and CGA, although it's not the way these screen
savers are supposed to work, but fading monitor and tickling green
monitor cannot be done on MDA and CGA, AFAIK. So, this is the second
best solution.
As of this change, the current state of support of screen savers is
summarized in the following table.
MDA CGA EGA VGA
blank OK OK NA OK
daemon OK OK OK OK
fade * * NA OK
green * * NA OK
snake OK OK OK OK
star OK OK OK OK
OK: works
NA: doesn't work, the module cannot be loaded for this adapter.
*: behave the same way as the blank saver.
As you can see, EGA is left out for now. But, we can do no better, as
EGA registers cannot be read...
Reviewed by: sos
facilitate the new saver loading/unloading notification interface
in syscons.
daemon_saver:
- M_NOWAIT was wrong, since NULL returns are not handled. Just use
M_WAITOK.
- use `ostype' instead of hard-coded "FreeBSD". Now there is no more
hard-coded string! (But, who will run this screen saver on other
OS?!)
- put macros and data declarations in a consistent order.
- -DDEAMON_ONLY and -DSHOW_HOSTNAME options added in the previous commit
are removed. Options of this kind can go stale and no one notices
because no one uses them. DEAMON_ONLY is just removed. SHOW_HOSTNAME
is made default.
snake_saver:
- use `ostype' and `osrelease' as in the daemon saver. The string changes
slightly - there was a hyphen after "FreeBSD"; now there is a space.
(It is consistent with uname -a, like the daemon server already is.)
all screen savers:
- Use the new add_scrn_saver()/remove_scrn_saver() in syscons.c
to declare loading/unloading of a screen saver. Removed reference
to `current_saver' and the variable `old_saver' as they are not
necessary anymore.
- The blank, fade and green screen savers manipulate VGA registers.
Module loading should fail for non-VGA cards.
- `scrn_blanked' is consistently treated as a number/counter rather
than boolean.
- Some savers touch `scp->start' and `scp->end' to force entire screen
update when stopping themselves. This is unnecessary now because
syscons.c takes care of that.
- cleared up many unused or unnecessary #include statements.
- Removed -DLKM from Makefiles.
YOU NEED TO RECOMPILE BOTH SCREEN SAVERS AND KERNEL AS OF THIS CHANGE.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
Removed screensavers from syscons, they are now LKM's. This makes it
possible to do some really "interesting" screensavers...
Fixed bug that sometimes caused garbage to appear when leaving
"scroll-lock" history.
Reformattet indentation, it got too deep for a normal 80 pos screen.
Split up in syscons.c & syscons.h for use with the saver-lkm's.
Temporarily removed -s option from vidcontrol, savers should now
be loaded with modload.
