kern/82036: loading green_saver makes screen go blank immediately.

[Giorgos Keramidas]

The following reply was made to PR kern/82036; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc: User Trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
Subject: Re: kern/82036: loading green_saver makes screen go blank immediately.
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:18:00 +0300

 On 2005-07-17 23:00, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:
 >% Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:32:18 +0200
 >% From: User Trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
 >%
 >% > 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.
 
 AHA!  Bingo!  This is why it blanks out when /etc/rc.d/syscons runs.
 
 Loading the saver module from /boot/loader.conf is what makes this
 trigger.  If you load the screen saver module from rc.conf using:
 
 	saver="snake"
 
 it all works as expected.  I'm not sure if this is a bug though.
 
 - Giorgos