From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jan 20 15:51:32 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41243A89F54 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:51:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mmatalka@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x22f.google.com (mail-wm0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D09271568 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:51:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mmatalka@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id 123so138330440wmz.0 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 07:51:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-type; bh=+9bPFejnVL5viMT5CWM0DXQPKeJg+w5Hn4FzlZnKGsk=; b=AgkAsd9qb6+HfEYPphVIB6oq5wqZhUgZ83E0bLpAIge5/oBMmVnTrmcHWrbFMVbT1P ldpcg54ySWQ4mnftGPaBKLsp57O8ujfDmLwpDanWOIkr177wJKQeuW/VxnccQkeg/0AB lzb4+qp7BiHaUygxxkuJES4HiogfirfM54b5j5GQuDhVSgnDsL/NjZmTKeN8w2+NuyNr relNK8iWvpZm4CMxYVbmhn/1iD1PaPj+Y6tTdUwwvLwh278lTHXhTJyB7uhz9JNTl7v6 U9y17to9Kdjd2BhpSBl0exwUoTijj7K/PnKidwtsSHwOhSQVXOUgw7u5/LFnXviKCknp aqWw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=+9bPFejnVL5viMT5CWM0DXQPKeJg+w5Hn4FzlZnKGsk=; b=Se7V/7eadAxwQ4sg2UBU86LlxyawUf13omITZLq6tcVNthoVdpEN5p+y/o7N0lkP31 EeDfiatq8ojUEMyyp8WoEFJZK0r+MYZ83wVgdyJdGuTjKacg7V8ZqjIaCwWSGE7Azatk QZNLr1xC6uUgQm74jWdSECoe3Xp1Dspmp7BnYSGyWR0txsA26k85Hl2FhA2Ajd8J9LQs hoYE6aQBWQjFMUBuAkdSfN9CiT/a4tugXOwBc29Rb5bLfcc+P8TA7TDqLw5KW/CXD7lv IZ5YxVnU1jUACU3ZDrZuNICdmmATGyMp1sXMY75eIxPe9wN+NYRH9Wgg4qcFEY6FvHXn sBcQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YOSAm5Hzbhc7Jz/ajU3K8OB8bLZ2snh0DhoQaQUd0PHQ028LGq/BmX0DAVX53jnRLA== X-Received: by 10.28.215.136 with SMTP id o130mr4769011wmg.33.1453305090299; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 07:51:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (li195-236.members.linode.com. [178.79.139.236]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b127sm25686577wmh.9.2016.01.20.07.51.26 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 20 Jan 2016 07:51:26 -0800 (PST) From: Malcolm Matalka To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Console rotates through all tty's after sitting for a bit Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:51:23 +0000 Message-ID: <86r3hcl05g.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:51:32 -0000 I installed FreeBSD on a machine (Dell OptiPlex 7010). I'm in the regular text console and if I just leave it, it starts rotating through all the tty's rather than going into a screen saver or anything (I have explicitly set the screen saver to a Blank screen). It did this during the install process as well. Has anyone experienced this and know why? It doesn't seem to negatively affect anything so far, it's just annoying. /Malcolm