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Date:      Fri, 15 May 2020 08:01:26 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: info on screen saver modules?
Message-ID:  <20200515080126.28a02a19.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <24254.1894.643331.822821@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
References:  <24254.1894.643331.822821@jerusalem.litteratus.org>

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On Thu, 14 May 2020 23:07:18 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
> 	Where can I find information on the screen saver modules
> (e.g. "snake_saver.ko") found in /boot/kernel?

General usage is covered in "man 1 vidcontrol", and
the individual savers are (more or less) documented
via source, for example the "Snake" saver is

	/usr/src/sys/dev/syscons/snake/snake_saver.c

with

	/usr/src/sys/dev/syscons/ being the root 

being the root directory for the screen savers.



> 	And: will they work on a system running:
> 
> FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #0 r354131: Mon Oct 28 17:27:33 EDT 2019  amd64
> 
> 	with the vt console?

No. They only work with sc; vt does not support the
screensavers. Details for comparing sc to vt here:

	https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons

If you switch to sc (only problem: no UTF-8, but all
the other encodings and fonts work), the screen savers
will be available.



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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