From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Oct 8 08:10:37 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9D5E2CAF4 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2017 08:10:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from dnvrco-cmomta01.email.rr.com (dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.73.230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 19BD330F8 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2017 08:10:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from localhost ([74.134.208.22]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id 16fLevo6HDCdC16fNeSwSm; Sun, 08 Oct 2017 08:10:29 +0000 Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 08:10:25 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screen Saver under FreeBSD 11.1 References: X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfOo7M5x3lZwGAQRUzE36CD1LwKWkQ1hRO5PvsE35h6aHNbx9RTbIL6lnhTsWYqg0LLwKpbSoVLwTyyETZm7ZkjQLGN8U1ht0QK+Czr/ry6btgZdeVZpG XExC+D6mYdMqark5xCJ2vt4my50RmUhBNZ4L+Wup8mF+DUGnCxC5x8nGvMOc+xNGego0cm7c760PCw== X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 08:10:37 -0000 from Manish Jain: > On 10/05/17 18:32, Eduardo Lemos de Sa wrote: > > I have used FreeBSD 11.1 (release/amd64) since some months. Everything > > seems to working good, but I couldn't find a way get screensaver working. I > > added into my /etc/rc.conf: > > saver="blank" > > blanktime="120" > > rebooted several times, but simply it did not work. Under X11, I could have > > xscreensaver working (and to reinforce security, I am working under X11 > > enviroment to have screen locked). Please, could you give some advise to > > solve this? > > Thanks in advance > > My best regards > > Eduardo > Getting the saver to work in console mode is difficult nowadays - > perhaps even impossible. > The only way you can get saver to work in console mode is to add this to > /boot/loader.conf and reboot : > kern.vty=sc > The default console driver under 11.x is vt. If you use sc, your saver > will begin to work, but then X will refuse to start (happens under > 10.3/11.0). If you manage to get it to work under 11.1 - good luck ! Same symptoms occur with NetBSD with DRMKMS, which is their name for vt or newcons. I can only guess it would occur with Linux too and would not fight it. X will not start from sc in FreeBSD or NetBSD. I have wondered if console screensaver could be made to work with vt or DRMKMS, but then there is the danger of not being able to come back from screenblanking. I no longer use sc in FreeBSD. In NetBSD, I like booting into 1920x1080 video mode for console and getting 67 (?) rows and 240 columns. 1920x1080 is my monitor's native mode and recommended by the manufacturer (LG). Tom