Screensavers in FC3

[Nils Philippsen]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 11:57, Nils Breunese wrote:

> Wouldn't it be better to create a separate OpenGL screensavers package? 
> Or is that the -3d package? I have a dual-head setup, one nvidia 
> geforce4mx and an old sis pci card. I like to run flurry, but it needs 
> OpenGL and unfortunately that sis card doesn't support it. So if my 
> system starts the screensaver one monitor has the pretty flurry visuals 
> and the other one prints out some errors. Having different screensavers 
> on each screen would probably involve changing xscreensaver?

Surely. XScreensaver already marks GL hacks as such so I guess it would
be doable to only call them if HW rendering for GL is available...

Nils
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