Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:15:21 -0600 From: CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> Subject: Re: Manually start screen saver Message-ID: <94f02dc0-fa79-a52f-cf81-f711390b399f@cyberleo.net> In-Reply-To: <20191113060902.00003f6d@seibercom.net> References: <20191113060902.00003f6d@seibercom.net>
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On 11/13/19 5:09 AM, Jerry wrote: > Running FreeBSD 12.1, is there any way to manually start the screen > saver? I have this is the "/etc/rc.conf" file, but the screen saver > never starts. > > ## Screen Saver > saver="star" The default console driver for modern FreeBSD versions is the vt(4) console driver. This is needed for modern X11 with kernel mode setting. As far as I know, the console screensavers only work with the legacy sc(4) console driver. I have not seen anything thus far that suggests this has changed. To make the console screensavers work again, you can set the following in loader.conf(5) and reboot: kern.vty=sc Keep in mind that this will break modern X and possibly EFI boot display output as well. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo <CyberLeo@CyberLeo.Net> Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net Element9 Communications http://www.Element9.net Furry Peace! - http://www.fur.com/peace/
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