Re: Porting BSD console screensavers to Linux

[Alan Cox]

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

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