Re: screen savers no longer working

In reply to: Dan Mahoney (Ports): "screen savers no longer working"
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From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 20:04:47 UTC

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 at 20:12, Dan Mahoney (Ports) <freebsd@gushi.org> wrote:
>
> 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).

Unfortunately screen savers are currently not supported with the vt
console. For now you can use `kern.vty=sc` in loader.conf to use the
legacy sc(4) console which should restore your screensaver.