FreeBSD splash screen - freezes my Dell Inspiron 9400

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Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> I'm observing the following with 8.0 Release:
> 
> Just for fun I installed a FreeBSD splash screen "The Power to Serve" 
> with the abstracted little demon.
> As long as the vidcontrol screen saver (not X11, I'm not running X11 at 
> present) has not fired the first time,
> everything  is fine - I can work in alphanumeric mode.
> 
> But when I leave the computer unattended for a while so that the 
> screensaver switches to darken/blank the screen
> the first time, the machine freezes or at least cannot be woken up again 
> so that the character screen shows up again.
> 
> Anyone seen this or having a clue?
> 
> Also not sure whether it is a splash screen issue at all, butr I thought 
> so, since it would have come up earlier otherwise.
> 
> -- 
> Christoph Kukulies
> 
> 


Have you read the handbook section 12.3.3.4 Boot Time Splash Screens?
The splash screen has its own screen saver. Or are you talking about the 
screen saver enabled in rc.conf?