From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Nov 13 23:23:51 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 462A31BF19E for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2019 23:23:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass Class 2 CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47D0zp48XHz48KT for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2019 23:23:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([94.223.160.172]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue107 [212.227.15.183]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1M8hEd-1iZgp80qPp-004guE for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:23:47 +0100 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:23:42 +0100 From: Polytropon To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Manually start screen saver Message-Id: <20191114002342.2cb070db.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20191113060902.00003f6d@seibercom.net> References: <20191113060902.00003f6d@seibercom.net> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:CFFcZuBPolkolXeRf30dwNPyn9ZB2BNPlviaxwmBr8h2F1wIUHh IBNYu9MCHvB3n/hnoZyCmeO8MhpznT379/0vjcVo6Vwil4rLfiJez8+E2cKBDWPPpFcqbIm LhMqC1lkVMi2jqzsR0+B/wQP7p1/571Ag7JdI7O53NtQ2kKcq5oNRvcEjA3tVSYfy8whkLJ g+rdsXBbneH/Du435zciA== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:xIg/JlyNTUA=:36qqkhTWLfxKCbPpPUP50f X+zIDu/4Ks7JJfzgbtqNlrLIDoRJKuT27k5AWLW75TXq9IwYjjtbQ24q+/lC81MNDbZ/2bvhW XYN7GUi0nySdt0Lsm75WlALcqGNkS5oxnQJ/1isgvlfmd4YhmcHmQV0sPZEw4Sg9bYLCtDaQE 0QjCD7XcXGZBq8yy98mT3DrRehJ7nri+1uIMg7Y1wn8bg/8DWk9di/JufqcE0dKm+MHpaft5Q +9VJGtFNfMzqkugWUJ0cj9NXFIloIhOUxyykytrvjHXnwIBfCVscehLH+dPPR6/QFCFtd5x6u nPiNfZbynV9dqzrxDaWf3v1rrBFHTMpYIb0j82fieylGmoHdfKIrYuKuU9Q4Csz54RzF73oA/ +V0O9zXwAJdMWLp6rddW6xOugy543wBKg6l/YAaQLgQX0gSd4dOam48p9r89amEHbankNsqNw KoSfDldH46yvE/EkM/cFmC20x5+71OM6R99BSST01ihrAp3Psjfmr8k7qu9RtFz+xgERcv69B 3FVqhnYaMp3vPOPnxKfSM57otAAmj8j1659WQvyBWREmAA8c7sle+jOUPFu3CAsoVJyQgASo2 n8KEGO/w2DyKzUD51hkGWcSK2whltkbdURZ1IcmD92tRtypBcEId6ycdJYwv0sgugp4jLs94R JfjfKAPCp+GL8GbYfuUw2eS/yW3F3dwt9G2+l/NwOZBu/RIDdqUgPqCuSk6Ni9aOrUi/n3BJe aQ3CgSD2wAsEWFAgsGvssYruTmoXVYDkTGXW40bgHZr0dVj5HRQ/MwewLBSbxLIa0BqBoIQ8J TLNVUS+KC7BnQB8w2opYbB7crv38VJhu634UI1ybVJFSUkDlWAto4aLlgBAdE15MksAMD69NN WnD+A4qlC5GZd8zSkn2A== X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 47D0zp48XHz48KT X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-6.00 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.996,0]; 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 23:23:51 -0000 On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 06:09:02 -0500, 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" That setting is correct, but it doesn't work anymore (at least not in FreeBSD's default configuration). So what you're observing is to be expected. The screensaver this setting refers to works with sc, the former console driver. Today FreeBSD use vt, which is required for X and KMS, and it's the default even in "text mode". You can still go back to using sc. In /boot/loader.conf: kern.vty=sc But in this case, X probably won't work anymore, if you depend on that... Sidenote: The setting saver= in /etc/rc.conf is used in /etc/rc.d/syscons where the required kernel module will be loaded. Same for blanktime=, which addresses vidcontrol. So basically, in order to get the screensaver started, you'd do: # service syscons restart But as I said, this now involves vt, not sc. The corresponding setting in /etc/rc.conf therefore have no effect. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...