Screen Saver under FreeBSD 11.1

[Eduardo Lemos de Sa]

Dear Manish

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Manish Jain <bourne.identity at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 10/05/17 18:32, Eduardo Lemos de Sa wrote:
> > Dear
> >
> > I have used FreeBSD 11.1 (release/amd64) since some months. Everything
> > seems to working good, but I couldn't find a way get screensaver
> working. I
> > added into my /etc/rc.conf:
> >
> > saver="blank"
> > blanktime="120"
> >
> >
> > rebooted several times, but simply it did not work. Under X11, I could
> have
> > xscreensaver working (and to reinforce security, I am working under X11
> > enviroment to have screen locked). Please, could you give some advise to
> > solve this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > My best regards
> >
> > Eduardo
>
> Getting the saver to work in console mode is difficult nowadays -
> perhaps even impossible.
>
> The only way you can get saver to work in console mode is to add this to
> /boot/loader.conf and reboot :
>
> kern.vty=sc
>
> The default console driver under 11.x is vt. If you use sc, your saver
> will begin to work, but then X will refuse to start (happens under
> 10.3/11.0). If you manage to get it to work under 11.1 - good luck !
>
> Regards
> Manish Jain
>


Thank you for your clarifications: I saw a discussion about vt x sc
terminals, but I couldn't realize that problems could have rearch
screensaver.

My best regards

Yours

Eduardo
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Eduardo Lemos de Sa
Professor Titular
Dep. Quimica da Universidade Federal do Paraná
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