blanking the console

[Lars Eighner]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, dick hoogendijk wrote:

> OK, probably a stupid question. I can't find it though. Sorry.
> How can I blank the screen on the console (terminal).
> Something like the linux "setterm -blank 60" which will blank the screen
> after 60 seconds of inactivity. There must be a (freebsd) equivalent,
> but what is it?
>
>

kldload blank_saver
    (loads the blank screensaver kernel module)
vidcontrol -t N
    (sets the timeout time to N seconds)

You can set these as boot-up default using
/stand/sysinstall .  Look for post-install configuration,
console.

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