[Bug 268095] sysutils/bsd-splash-changer

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268095

--- Comment #3 from Daniel Peyer <981973@protonmail.com> ---
I did dig a little deeper, to find the root why this package is not working
anymore.

- I believe, the main reason is that in 2013 FreeBSD switched from syscons(4)
to vt(4) (virtual terminal console driver also known as the "Newcons" project).
See: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons

- There is also another bug report
(https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210432) that boot time
splash screen does not work with vt.

- I see, that the documentation was updated, but the man pages are not
completed.

- I can get the boot splash, screensaver to work, if I force the kernel to use
the syscons driver with an entry in /boo/loader.conf -> kern.vty="sc"

- Why keeping old drivers and old packages alive for so a long time, if nobody
is willing to maintains it?

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