screen savers no longer working

From: Dan Mahoney (Ports) <freebsd_at_gushi.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:12:12 UTC 
Hey there all,

Silly thing. I have a home server that I leave connected to the vga port on my TV. Previously, I had dragon_saver or fire_saver running just so if you switched to that input you’d see something pretty (I only connect a keyboard when there’s a problem).

The kernel module loads fine, per the knob in rc.conf, but under 12.3 (i386) it doesn’t seem to be starting. Neither dragon or fire works (haven’t tried the rest).

Anyone can confirm this?

-Dan

Related q: is there a way to run “vidcontrol” to set the timeout via ssh (i.e. affect the console)

root@hammock:/etc # grep -i 'vga' /var/run/dmesg.boot
VT(vga): resolution 640x480
vtvga0: <VT VGA driver> on motherboard
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xff00-0xff07 mem 0xfdf00000-0xfdf7ffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xfdf80000-0xfdfbffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: <Intel 945GME SVGA controller> on vgapci0
vgapci0: Boot video device
VT(vga): resolution 640x480
vtvga0: <VT VGA driver> on motherboard
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xff00-0xff07 mem 0xfdf00000-0xfdf7ffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xfdf80000-0xfdfbffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: <Intel 945GME SVGA controller> on vgapci0
vgapci0: Boot video device
VT(vga): resolution 640x480
vtvga0: <VT VGA driver> on motherboard
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xff00-0xff07 mem 0xfdf00000-0xfdf7ffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xfdf80000-0xfdfbffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: <Intel 945GME SVGA controller> on vgapci0
vgapci0: Boot video device
VT(vga): resolution 640x480
vtvga0: <VT VGA driver> on motherboard
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xff00-0xff07 mem 0xfdf00000-0xfdf7ffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xfdf80000-0xfdfbffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: <Intel 945GME SVGA controller> on vgapci0
vgapci0: Boot video device