Post by Thomas MuellerPost by Manish JainPost by Eduardo Lemos de SaI 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
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
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 !
Same symptoms occur with NetBSD with DRMKMS, which is their name for vt or newcons.
I can only guess it would occur with Linux too and would not fight it.
I'd say it's already present in Linux for a long while, but as
Linux is already quite X-centric (at least the desktop distros,
obviously), it is not a problem over there. Hardly anyone uses
Linux in text mode. :-)
Post by Thomas MuellerX will not start from sc in FreeBSD or NetBSD.
Exactly, that's why the traditional text mode has been lost in
FreeBSD, as soon as your system should run X.
Post by Thomas MuellerI have wondered if console screensaver could be made to work with
vt or DRMKMS, but then there is the danger of not being able to
come back from screenblanking.
This special sympton has been occuring when using sc with X (at
a time where you could actually _start_ X from sc), but switching
back from X to sc left the screen blank.
With vt, you are always in graphics mode (there is no text mode
anymore), so I'd assume that blanking and returning is not a
problem here (no mode-switching).
Post by Thomas MuellerI no longer use sc in FreeBSD.
It only works for systems that do not run X.
Post by Thomas MuellerIn NetBSD, I like booting into 1920x1080 video mode for console
and getting 67 (?) rows and 240 columns.
And that is exactly what I personally have problems with. The system
boots with 80x25 text mode, then 80x25 graphics mode, then blanks
for several seconds, and finally returns with tiny letters in an
unpleasant font. On the laptop's native display, it becomes unreadable.
So say goodbye to text mode, use X with xterms (or any other
terminal application), where it's far easier to get a readable
font at a terminal size you want, be it 80x25 or 132x67. And
use xlock / xlockmore / xscreensaver instead. :-)
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...