From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Nov 13 16:15:30 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A34C1B4F46 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:15:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cyberleo@cyberleo.net) Received: from mail.cyberleo.net (paka.cyberleo.net [216.226.128.180]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47CqTZ2fTMz4CvP for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:15:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cyberleo@cyberleo.net) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:36f:4446:a1ff:fee1:94aa] (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:36f:4446:a1ff:fee1:94aa]) by mail.cyberleo.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C9A7C8E52B; Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:15:22 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Manually start screen saver To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jerry References: <20191113060902.00003f6d@seibercom.net> From: CyberLeo Kitsana Message-ID: <94f02dc0-fa79-a52f-cf81-f711390b399f@cyberleo.net> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:15:21 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191113060902.00003f6d@seibercom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 47CqTZ2fTMz4CvP X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.99 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.993,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:15:30 -0000 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 Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net Element9 Communications http://www.Element9.net Furry Peace! - http://www.fur.com/peace/