Screensaver?

Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt at mac.com
Thu Dec 20 18:41:37 PST 2007


On Dec 20, 2007, at 6:32 PM, Peter Grehan wrote:

> Hi David,
>
>> I don't want to burn in the LCD of my iBook g4, so I'm trying to  
>> figure out
>> how to enable the screen saver.
>> I've tried using vidcontrol -t 1, but it never engages the console  
>> screen
>> saver.
>
> There aren't any screensavers built. When I first did the syscons  
> code, I looked at a few and they wanted to do PC-style video mode  
> changing. The ones that didn't (blank) were then dependent on  
> splash, and I think my patience ran out around there.
>
> I'm sure something could be tweaked to work.

It already works with:
	device	splash
	device	blank_saver

FYI,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com




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