Reading the handbook from console

Devin Teske devin.teske at fisglobal.com
Mon Jan 14 01:00:16 UTC 2013


On Jan 13, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Fbsd8 wrote:

> Robert Bonomi wrote:
>>> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:48:01 +0100
>>> From: Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de>
>>> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com>
>>> Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console
>>> Cc: scotteberl at gmail.com, dteske at freebsd.org, questions at freebsd.org
>>> 
>>> On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:15:23 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote:
>>>> What do you mean by "enable console graphics"?
>>>> Is this something different than x11?
>>> The is a famous library, svgalib, a "low level console graphics
>>> library" which can - under _very_ specific circumstances - display
>>> graphics "on" the text mode console. There are few browsers,
>>> image viewers and even media players that can use this interface
>>> to display "console graphics" while _not_ needing X.
>>> 
>>> However, this only works for local displays. As soon as there
>>> is a serial or SSH connection involved, it doesn't work anymore.
>>> 
>>> I've actually never seen this working on FreeBSD; maybe it's
>>> just a Linuxism. Maybe it's just because I've never tried. :-)
>>> 
>> Works fine on FreeBSD  -- graphics-mode screen-savers (like 'fire')
>> use it.
> How do you activate graphics-mode screen-savers (like 'fire')?

Try adding to /boot/loader.conf:
screensave_load="YES"
screensave_name="fire_saver"

-- 
Devin

P.S. The default is "green_saver" (which blanks the console, saving energy making it "green").

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