From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 10:52:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24EFD37B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id e95Hq6Z12176; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:52:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:52:06 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Zhiui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Turn off screen after idle for a while Message-ID: <20001005125206.B5389@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.9i In-Reply-To: ; from "Zhiui Zhang" on Thu Oct 5 13:41:30 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 05), Zhiui Zhang said: > > I am using a text screen (no X windows), I want to turn off the screen > after it is idle for while. vidcontrol -t 2 does not seem to work. How to > do this (Linux seems to do this automatically)? Thanks. You need to load a screensaver first; edit /etc/rc.conf and add saver="green" (or run "kldload green_saver" as root). That'll use the monitor's power-saving mode. I think "man 4 screensaver" lists all the ones that come with the base system. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message