From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 14 17:31:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from karon.dynas.se (karon.dynas.se [192.71.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8377E37B719 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:31:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko@dynas.se) Received: (qmail 11967 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2001 01:31:29 -0000 Received: from spirit.sto.dynas.se (HELO spirit.dynas.se) (172.16.1.10) by 172.16.1.1 with SMTP; 15 Mar 2001 01:31:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 16695 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2001 01:31:27 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 15 Mar 2001 01:31:27 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by explorer.rsa.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2F1VNL11703; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:31:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:31:23 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200103150131.f2F1VNL11703@explorer.rsa.com> To: bburnell@dnai.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oh dear... Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions References: X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd.questions you write: >I feel like such a fool for asking this... >In /etc/rc.conf, I can see the setting that determines the terminal screen >saver. So I suppose I have to questions: >1) What are the names of the various screen savers? % grep saver /etc/defaults/rc.conf saver="NO" # screen saver: Uses /modules/${saver}_saver.ko % ls /modules/*_saver.ko /modules/apm_saver.ko /modules/logo_saver.ko /modules/blank_saver.ko /modules/rain_saver.ko /modules/daemon_saver.ko /modules/snake_saver.ko /modules/fade_saver.ko /modules/star_saver.ko /modules/fire_saver.ko /modules/warp_saver.ko /modules/green_saver.ko So, possible values are: "daemon", "snake" etc >2) Hos does one change the terminal screen setting once the system has >booted? man vidcontrol To look at different savers you can do: # kldload snake_saver # vidcontrol -t 4 (wait a few seconds for saver to kick in... look at it... hit space) # vidcontrol -t off # kldunload snake_saver (etc) What actually happens at boot can be figured out by reading /etc/rc.syscons (or a part of /etc/rc.i386 for not-so-recent systems). Regards, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message