swatt@cup.portal.com (Steven Edward Watt) (11/12/89)
Does anybody know of a replacement console driver for SCO Unix V/386 that does video blanking after 10 minutes? I have been asked if I knew of one several times, and heard rumors of one... Hiding out there somewhere... If so, please e-mail me, and if anybody in net.land asks, I will summarize & post. Steve Watt swatt@cup.portal.com ...!ucbvax!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!swatt
chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) (11/15/89)
swatt@cup.portal.com (Steven Edward Watt) writes: > Does anybody know of a replacement console driver for SCO Unix V/386 >that does video blanking after 10 minutes? I'm not sure if it's worth putting more goo in the kernel for this. At one time I ran a shell script via cron which just did a "who" and echoed a "^L" to screens which have been idle after a while. If you want to get fancier, you can determine the current screen being displayed (a program recently posted to comp.unix.xenix shows how) and just clear that one if it's been idle for a while. -- Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337 Someday the whole country will be one vast "Metroplex" - Zippy's friend Griffy ===> addr changes 11/22 to "chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG" (texbell!chinacat!chip)
swatt@cup.portal.com (Steven Edward Watt) (11/17/89)
Unfortunately, that doesn't help for the programs that don't know how to re-draw their screens... Hence more goo for the kernel. Steve Watt swatt@cup.portal.com ...!ucbvax!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!swatt
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (11/21/89)
swatt@cup.portal.com (Steven Edward Watt) writes: >Unfortunately, that doesn't help for the programs that don't know how >to re-draw their screens... Hence more goo for the kernel. Not really. Remember, the kernel already supports saving the entire screen via the Multiscreen utility. All that is really needed is to save the current screen in an extra buffer (if it is not already saved) and blank out the screen until ANY key is pressed. This will involve linking together the keyboard and the console drivers, something that the designers at SCO aren't too thrilled about doing. JB -- Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc. (201) 245-5922 500 Oakwood Ave. jbayer@ispi.COM Roselle Park, NJ 07204
swatt@cup.portal.com (Steven Edward Watt) (11/23/89)
The only problem with switching to multiscreen 12 is that it is not even CLOSE to transparent... You mean I have to remember which multi- screen I was on before the screen saver came on??? (: Unfortunately, I'm not the one who uses the console the most, and would have a difficult time explaining that to the person that does... Besides, the X implementation does a correct screen saver, including coming back when the pointer moves! Humph. Steve Watt swatt@cup.portal.com ...!ucbvax!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!swatt wattres!steve@zok.uucp ...!zok!wattres!steve (The latter is preferred!)