Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:20:21 GMT From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/82036: loading green_saver makes screen go blank immediately. Message-ID: <200507172320.j6HNKLZE098032@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/82036; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: bug-followup@freebsd.org Cc: User Trasz <trasz@pin.if.uz.zgora.pl> Subject: Re: kern/82036: loading green_saver makes screen go blank immediately. Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:18:00 +0300 On 2005-07-17 23:00, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote: >% Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:32:18 +0200 >% From: User Trasz <trasz@pin.if.uz.zgora.pl> >% >% > I haven't had the time to test this, but I suspect this is because you >% > don't have blanktime="" set in your rc.conf and the timeout defaults to >% > a short time. >% >% timeout defaults to zero, but in that case screen saver should be disabled. >% >% > Can you verify that when blanktime is set to a non-zero >% > value in rc.conf kldloading the green_saver works as expected? >% >% yes. the problem, however, is that screen savers blank the screen >% right after being kldloaded. i load it from /boot/loader.conf, so it >% blanks the screen somewhere during kernel initialization, before boot >% scripts can set blanktime. AHA! Bingo! This is why it blanks out when /etc/rc.d/syscons runs. Loading the saver module from /boot/loader.conf is what makes this trigger. If you load the screen saver module from rc.conf using: saver="snake" it all works as expected. I'm not sure if this is a bug though. - Giorgos
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