From nobody Tue Oct 01 17:05:07 2024 X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4XJ47c0lWTz5Y67k for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:05:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk) Received: from bs2.fjl.org.uk (bs2.fjl.org.uk [84.45.41.208]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "bs2.fjl.org.uk", Issuer "bs2.fjl.org.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4XJ47b0brfz4PrY for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2024 17:05:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk designates 84.45.41.208 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk; dmarc=none Received: from roundcube.fjl.uk ([192.168.0.2]) by bs2.fjl.org.uk (8.16.1/8.16.1) with ESMTP id 491H57Em087168 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2024 17:05:07 GMT (envelope-from freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk) List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:05:07 +0100 From: Frank Leonhardt To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stop console going blank (if it is) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <64ef7d018ddafbdc85e923992e09fbe3@fjl.co.uk> X-Sender: freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.00 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.995]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.97)[-0.967]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:84.45.41.208]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.16)[0.162]; ONCE_RECEIVED(0.10)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:25577, ipnet:84.45.0.0/17, country:GB]; RCVD_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; MISSING_XM_UA(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[fjl.co.uk]; ARC_NA(0.00)[] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4XJ47b0brfz4PrY X-Spamd-Bar: -- On 2024-10-01 10:31, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > I've just asked someone to plug in a monitor and send me a photo of the > screen. "It's blank". > > Horrible memories of "screen savers" being added to later versions of > FreeBSD. > > I can't actually tell if this is the case here - how can you make 100% > sure the video output never gets turned off? > > I'm seeing the following during a boot: "kernel:  blanktime." and > getting paranoid. > > "sysrc saver" returns "saver: NO" > > Thanks, Frank. If anyone can answer this I'd still be interested, but I think the box had blanked it's screen because it was in a very bad way. I now have a question about crash dumps, as what's on the screen is not helpful!