screen saver

[Manolis Kiagias]

On 11/07/2010 4:00 π.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> hello,
>
> i am new to the freebsd world and i am trying to put screen saver to my box.
>
> i have a freebsd 8.0-release,i386 system i have loaded to rc.conf
>
>
>          saver="rain"
>
>
> i have gave the command "vidcontrol -t 3" in the ttyv and i am in ttyv
>  but screen saver doesn't appear after 3 seconds.
>
> the command "kldstat" shows that the module "rain_saver.ko" is loaded.
>
>
> i think that i am doing everything right but screen saver doesn't appear..
>
>
>
> thanks in advance
>   

Did you run /etc/rc.d/syscons restart (or reboot) after changing the
saver= line in rc.conf?
It works fine here.