Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:00:38 GMT From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/82036: loading green_saver makes screen go blank immediately. Message-ID: <200507172300.j6HN0cT2092642@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/82036; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: trasz <trasz@buziaczek.pl> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/82036: loading green_saver makes screen go blank immediately. Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 01:56:36 +0300 Adding to audit trail. % Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:32:18 +0200 % From: User Trasz <trasz@pin.if.uz.zgora.pl> % To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> % Subject: Re: [keramida@freebsd.org: Re: kern/82036: loading green_saver makes screen go blank immediately.] % % sorry for late reply. freebsd.org apparently decided to throw away % email from my 'main' account. % % Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote: % > To: trasz <trasz@buziaczek.pl> % > Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org % > % > On 2005-06-08 15:14, trasz <trasz@buziaczek.pl> wrote: % > > boot without green_saver loaded. do 'kldload green_saver' and wait % > > for about one second. % > % > Does this happen only with green_saver? % % no. it happens with every screen saver, right after kldloading it. % % > I haven't had the time to test this, but I suspect this is because you % > don't have blanktime="" set in your rc.conf and the timeout defaults to % > a short time. % % timeout defaults to zero, but in that case screen saver should be disabled. % % > Can you verify that when blanktime is set to a non-zero % > value in rc.conf kldloading the green_saver works as expected? % % yes. the problem, however, is that screen savers blank the screen % right after being kldloaded. i load it from /boot/loader.conf, so it % blanks the screen somewhere during kernel initialization, before boot % scripts can set blanktime.
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