Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 08:01:26 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: info on screen saver modules? Message-ID: <20200515080126.28a02a19.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <24254.1894.643331.822821@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <24254.1894.643331.822821@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Thu, 14 May 2020 23:07:18 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > Where can I find information on the screen saver modules > (e.g. "snake_saver.ko") found in /boot/kernel? General usage is covered in "man 1 vidcontrol", and the individual savers are (more or less) documented via source, for example the "Snake" saver is /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons/snake/snake_saver.c with /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons/ being the root being the root directory for the screen savers. > And: will they work on a system running: > > FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #0 r354131: Mon Oct 28 17:27:33 EDT 2019 amd64 > > with the vt console? No. They only work with sc; vt does not support the screensavers. Details for comparing sc to vt here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons If you switch to sc (only problem: no UTF-8, but all the other encodings and fonts work), the screen savers will be available. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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