From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jan 21 08:23:06 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 C7542A8B4C4 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:23:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mmatalka@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x230.google.com (mail-wm0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::230]) (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 6034D1001 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:23:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mmatalka@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x230.google.com with SMTP id b14so67547104wmb.1 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:23:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=XO99j/kzHZQYBaRU9ivKhrD70zxXbphXXVIDUsIRJFo=; b=kEju0CaH0QKGp08dPVCLO60wVJoJsoaWJ4WLPW2QtACw7DGBPXmGtSvey/+k/Ryks6 pOHJMUZZ2d8LDII/gs6Z155Rz09dTJhd0/lUc35yt1rC5MAAC3zNrqWZgIFBlpX/7sTS 2ebK9F9v8crf2nqMd1TWGtJGAveML/ZJSCMvbPJA7VgfHKNQOuTPXDq8dN89MAsqrSsC 7ftbfh0euyHrNlmpLrwpSbfIkvYXL0Li8SS6X+Pg2yCUZjzu0MHhwhz9Nokl03Qj50r8 5alAilOBOoWzXxaLT+cWyWLv2qNjkXslGoUhTMmJ95b2gXE/L2xelgwurWX197U6x/6f N6bQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=XO99j/kzHZQYBaRU9ivKhrD70zxXbphXXVIDUsIRJFo=; b=I+7TZgpUcinLg/0Lm1p5AI2i029UpD7qzdadp69+DQxigkbKd4BV2Lo0PM7R88YItX RrYIN74QHbx0ubJZcTq7WVtEDkezsWtXIkZnCkRoEWN6k1PCCloc9us1fkyS1J/qm/ni SDOi+2t2xJYlXPnXhkLSGwuFsGrhdWvM1lI7ikhUNTZzMuTJCO45HizgANLzBigIq3OB 2rUhxzxhPRoOl6hLnY1glaPLIZ25uc7JNlZc3pMcWP/Hn0R1JXel2BJPs2elNHUtyXCX W4/zJAaikfJDyWZZF/QenZE5rfVx6l9B9NMCxQnCFySZYTb3X2dVf2z4jtZEGP1oz8Bl yYKA== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YORwkaDBC34p1mwPrURT8HSyzKiQ1wiGXBVT8aRI7LIih4OnJNVYwExDlERg4sSAeA== X-Received: by 10.28.50.193 with SMTP id y184mr8895971wmy.103.1453364584841; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:23:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (li195-236.members.linode.com. [178.79.139.236]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id jo6sm221978wjb.48.2016.01.21.00.23.03 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:23:03 -0800 (PST) From: Malcolm Matalka To: Polytropon Cc: Warren Block , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console rotates through all tty's after sitting for a bit References: <86r3hcl05g.fsf@gmail.com> <20160121034342.8d4b0ccb.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:23:00 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20160121034342.8d4b0ccb.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Thu, 21 Jan 2016 03:43:42 +0100") Message-ID: <86k2n3l4t7.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: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:23:07 -0000 Polytropon writes: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:11:24 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Malcolm Matalka wrote: >> >> > 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. >> >> Something is hitting the PrintScrn key. > > My first thought exactly. :-) > > Check the physical keyboard, and if it is a wireless keyboard, > check possible "offending" other keyboards of that kind, too. Interesting. It's a wired, but USB, keyboard. The keyboard itself is in Swedish but I am using an English (US) keymap. I'm curious though, why would this happen after sitting for awhile instead of all the time? Just random keyboard driver freaking out after idling for a bit?