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Date:      Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:11:24 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Console rotates through all tty's after sitting for a bit
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1601201009370.19479@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <86r3hcl05g.fsf@gmail.com>
References:  <86r3hcl05g.fsf@gmail.com>

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On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Malcolm Matalka wrote:

> I installed FreeBSD on a machine (Dell OptiPlex 7010).  I'm in the
> regular text console and if I just leave it, it starts rotating through
> all the tty's rather than going into a screen saver or anything (I have
> explicitly set the screen saver to a Blank screen).  It did this during
> the install process as well.
>
> Has anyone experienced this and know why?  It doesn't seem to
> negatively affect anything so far, it's just annoying.

Something is hitting the PrintScrn key.



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