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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:41:32 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        grehan@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Screensaver?
Message-ID:  <1D0E3C1C-F8C1-4FBC-96DF-DCA56DBC3FA7@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <476B25B2.70800@freebsd.org>
References:  <9cf5ced20712201020l54616c33sebef49df7d53852a@mail.gmail.com> <476B25B2.70800@freebsd.org>

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On Dec 20, 2007, at 6:32 PM, Peter Grehan wrote:

> Hi David,
>
>> I don't want to burn in the LCD of my iBook g4, so I'm trying to  
>> figure out
>> how to enable the screen saver.
>> I've tried using vidcontrol -t 1, but it never engages the console  
>> screen
>> saver.
>
> There aren't any screensavers built. When I first did the syscons  
> code, I looked at a few and they wanted to do PC-style video mode  
> changing. The ones that didn't (blank) were then dependent on  
> splash, and I think my patience ran out around there.
>
> I'm sure something could be tweaked to work.

It already works with:
	device	splash
	device	blank_saver

FYI,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com





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