info on screen saver modules?
Polytropon
freebsd at edvax.de
Fri May 15 06:01:32 UTC 2020
On Thu, 14 May 2020 23:07:18 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
> Where can I find information on the screen saver modules
> (e.g. "snake_saver.ko") found in /boot/kernel?
General usage is covered in "man 1 vidcontrol", and
the individual savers are (more or less) documented
via source, for example the "Snake" saver is
/usr/src/sys/dev/syscons/snake/snake_saver.c
with
/usr/src/sys/dev/syscons/ being the root
being the root directory for the screen savers.
> And: will they work on a system running:
>
> FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #0 r354131: Mon Oct 28 17:27:33 EDT 2019 amd64
>
> with the vt console?
No. They only work with sc; vt does not support the
screensavers. Details for comparing sc to vt here:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
If you switch to sc (only problem: no UTF-8, but all
the other encodings and fonts work), the screen savers
will be available.
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Polytropon
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