From: Russ Cox rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com
Subject: [9fans] screenblanker
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:15:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980917051529.opqfRE7QeKracJKAECQTA5Maffsiw_FeoWFhQCcevus@z> (raw)
The screen blanker is (and always has been) at
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/~rsc/plan9/blanker.txt
It's an embarrassing piece of code. My only defense
is that it was almost two years ago.
The screen blanking really belongs in 8½, not
outside it, and really should have help from the
hardware to make it effective (e.g.. echo -n blank >/dev/vgactl;
echo -n unblank >/dev/vgactl).
That said, the boddle in blanker.txt does work
as advertised without these things.
A nice compromise might be to take Scott Schwartz's vga hardware
modifications and rewrite the shell script included in
blanker.txt to take advantage of them.
Russ
next reply other threads:[~1998-09-17 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-17 5:15 Russ [this message]
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1998-09-20 5:20 okamoto
1998-09-18 12:09 Russ
1998-09-18 5:07 okamoto
1998-09-17 5:03 Scott
1998-09-17 4:51 okamoto
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