jwd@sas.UUCP (John W. DeBoskey) (01/06/90)
Hello all, I'm running isc 1.0.6 and am wondering if someone has come up with or nows how to write a screen blanker(saver) for the console. I know how to blank the screen when doing direct port io, but I don't know how to link this into the kernel. I thought about just putting a process into the background that would poll the access times, and after a certain amount of time, blank the screen, but I don't know how to turn the screen back on immediately. (receive some sort of activation signal). On a different note, with all the serial io articles going by I thought I'd say that I just installed a Specialix PS2/8 board in my machine. The board works great. The doc was written for an AT class machine which through me at first. ie: incorrect device to read a tar file from, etc. However, the company that shipped me the board isn't the best. They didn't ship the board to me, they shipped it to the company that I work for. So it took me a couple of extra days to FIND the board. It went to lost and found(equipment). Then the lost my visa card number... ugh... The company is Americom Distributors, Marietta, GA. Anyone have any comments? Personally, with the way the reponded, I don't know that I'll recommend them if/when a time ever comes... They were very apologetic about it, but I don't think the mistakes should have happened to begin with. John W De Boskey jwd@sas.UUCP (w) jwd@baggins.UUCP (h)