Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:23:42 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Manually start screen saver Message-ID: <20191114002342.2cb070db.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20191113060902.00003f6d@seibercom.net> References: <20191113060902.00003f6d@seibercom.net>
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 06:09:02 -0500, Jerry wrote: > Running FreeBSD 12.1, is there any way to manually start the screen > saver? I have this is the "/etc/rc.conf" file, but the screen saver > never starts. > > ## Screen Saver > saver="star" That setting is correct, but it doesn't work anymore (at least not in FreeBSD's default configuration). So what you're observing is to be expected. The screensaver this setting refers to works with sc, the former console driver. Today FreeBSD use vt, which is required for X and KMS, and it's the default even in "text mode". You can still go back to using sc. In /boot/loader.conf: kern.vty=sc But in this case, X probably won't work anymore, if you depend on that... Sidenote: The setting saver= in /etc/rc.conf is used in /etc/rc.d/syscons where the required kernel module will be loaded. Same for blanktime=, which addresses vidcontrol. So basically, in order to get the screensaver started, you'd do: # service syscons restart But as I said, this now involves vt, not sc. The corresponding setting in /etc/rc.conf therefore have no effect. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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