How do you set a screensaver in console mode?

neilms

neilms

I tried # sysinstall and get command not found. I have tried searching but all of the posts about this seem to be quite old and it appears that the system has changed. I just want the FreeBSD daemon screensaver.
 
I'm using release 10.2, the sysctl kern.vty returned: vt
 
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If you don't use Xorg you could switch back to sc(4). The screensavers are simple kernel modules, you can enable them in /etc/rc.conf:
Code: 
saver="beastie"

Code: 
root@molly:~ # ll /boot/kernel/*_saver.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  15768 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/beastie_saver.ko*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   3848 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/blank_saver.ko*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  13192 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/daemon_saver.ko*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   8512 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/dragon_saver.ko*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   4592 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/fade_saver.ko*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   7168 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/fire_saver.ko*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   3848 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/green_saver.ko*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  12528 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/logo_saver.ko*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  11960 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/plasma_saver.ko*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   7008 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/rain_saver.ko*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   8128 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/snake_saver.ko*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   5440 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/star_saver.ko*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   6944 Jan 31 21:29 /boot/kernel/warp_saver.ko*
 
I have tried similar ways to start screensaver. I have the same new console vt(4). The default blank appears at the 10 minute idle time, so I guess that is good enough....:)
 
You can change it:
Code: 
blanktime="300"         # blank time (in seconds) or "NO" to turn it off.
 
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