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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:55:09 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Changing screen saver without rebooting?
Message-ID:  <20000730235508.X21967@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200007310434.AAA20549@vulcan.addy.com>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 12:42:03AM -0400
References:  <200007310434.AAA20549@vulcan.addy.com>

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* Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> [000730 21:36] wrote:
> Is there a way to change the screen saver or the blank time
> without rebooting?
> I did a ps -aux and did not see any programs that seemed like
> the screen saver. Is this build into the kernel?

Yup, you'll want to do a 'kldstat' which ought to show you which
_saver module you have loaded, you can then use kldload/unload to
swap a new one in.  Vidcontrol should allow you to change the 
delay.

-Alfred


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