Cannot load intel driver(i915kms) without screen blanking out

Manish Jain bourne.identity at hotmail.com
Tue May 12 10:19:20 UTC 2020


 > Only for systems that do _not_ run X, choosing sc is still
 > possible with
 >
 > 	kern.vty="sc"
 >
 > in /boot/loader.conf, changing the default setting from vt.


Hi Poly/Ekalavya,

Perhaps I should add that while X needs kern.vty set to vt, setting the 
variable to sc disables X but enables text-mode screensavers.

I have a pure text-mode FreeBSD installation on one of my disks and I 
quite enjoy the Logo saver therein.


Regards,
Manish Jain


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