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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: screen saver?
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On Sun, 8 Oct 2017 16:09:59 -0400, donald wrote:
> I am new to BSD 11.1 and am trying to get the screen saver to work.=20
> After searching, I came across the following: saver_enable=3D"YES"=A0=A0=
=A0 =A0=A0=A0=20
> saver=3D"daemon"=A0=A0=A0 blanktime=3D"300" entered into the /etc/rc.conf=
 file=20
> This does not work. Could anyone point me in the correct direction?=A0=A0=
=A0=A0=A0=20

The classic screensaver only works with the traditional
text mode console subsystem sc; with the new vt (newcons),
it doesn't.

Put this into /boot/loader.conf:

	kern.vty=3Dsc

Note: This will probably cause X to stop working. :-)



--=20
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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