From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 15 09:38:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA27997 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 09:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adam.adonai.net ([205.182.92.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA27987 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 09:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (leec@localhost) by adam.adonai.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17345; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:40:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:40:40 -0500 (CDT) From: "Lee Crites (AEI)" Reply-To: "Lee Crites (AEI)" To: George Yobst cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stars screen saver problem... (oops) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 May 1997, George Yobst wrote: =>*When I upgraded to 2.2 (via ctm -- thanks Richard), the screen saver =>*ceased to show up. My upgrade happened without a glitch -- compiled =>*with no errors, etc. =>Lee, look in /etc/sysconfig for: => =># Set blank time (in seconds) or "off" to turn it off (or NO for default) =>blanktime="300" => =># Set to screen saver desired: blank, green, snake, star (or NO for none) =>saver="star" Sorry, I must not have been clear enough. I found what needed to be changed to get the screen saver working. The problem is now that is is working, all it is doing is changing the one byte at (0,0) on the screen. When it kicks on (after 300 seconds), I see spot (0,0) to wild with flashing characters and nothing else is changed. I'll a few more bits of info: * I'm not using X * Since console messages show up on the alt-f1 screen, and I don't want to screw them up, I am almost always in one of the others -- normally alt-f2, where I am running the "systat -vmstat 2" command. Thanks again... Lee