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From: roger@imagen.imagen.com (roger wang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: RE: screen blankers
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.024339.22697@imagen.com>
Date: 15 Jan 91 02:43:39 GMT
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In article <40653@usc>, kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) write:
>
> In late Oct '90 or early Nov '90, Donald Duncan posted a screen blanker
> for Minix.  It didn't work for my machine (EGA), and so I wrote another
> and posted it in early Nov '90.  My screen blanker worked by copying the
> data from the screen to an array in the kernel - instead of diddling
> with the bits on the video card.
>
> I think that sometime after I posted my screen blanker, somebody else
> posted another screen blanker that works the same way as Donald
> Duncan's - by diddling the video card bits.  They claimed that it worked
> on EGA displays.  I'm looking for it, and I can't find it.  If anybody
> has it, please post it again or email it to me.  Thanks.

Please post it again or email it to me too. Thanks.