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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:17:57 -0600
From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] how to run screensaver on cpu server console
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that was a hack to allow "locking" of terminals as per management's
requirements: http://mirtchovski.com/lanlp9/rlock/index.html

not really sure that's what Antonin was looking for.

there is blanking for vga enabled displays (man 3 vga) but i'm not
sure consoles can actually be blanked if there's no vga running on
them. you can, of course, run aux/vga without starting rio and use the
hardware blanker with a low blanktime. or you can also just unplug the
monitor cable.

On 7/31/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/31/07, Antonin Vecera <antonin.vecera@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > is it possible to run screensaver (blank screen) on cpu server console?
> > How to set idle time?
>
> years ago, dean pritchard at LANL did a neat thing by hooking the
> screen saver in at a very low level -- that's about all I remember
> except it was cool. Andrey may remember how it all worked -- Andrey?
> Can you recall what I'm talking about from this lousy description I'm
> giving?
>
> ron
>