From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 18 15:52:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380A737B401 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:52:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6589F43E65 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:52:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7165472FCC; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E7C972FC5; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:50:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Don Lewis Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: booting with a serial console disables the screen saver In-Reply-To: <200209182250.g8IMnwwr020570@gw.catspoiler.org> Message-ID: <20020918155014.E33858-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Don Lewis wrote: > I needed to configure my -current box to use a serial console so that I > could get to ddb while the system was running the X11 server on the main > console, so I hooked up the serial cable and rebooted with the -h option > in boot.config. After I did this, I noticed that the green_saver kld > would no longer blank the screen after a period of inactivity if the > main console is in text mode and the X11 server isn't running. Thats because the screensaver attaches to the console, not ttyv0, and screensavers only work on VGA consoles. When you -h it to serial, the kld won't load. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message