Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: >>I learned that in order to make changes to the screen saver, >>I had to reboot the computer. Those changes, made by >>sysinstall, appear in /etc/rc.conf. >> >>Is there a way to make such changes take effect without >>rebooting? (Version 5.3 RELEASE, i386) > > > Of course there are. Reboots are only really necessary for switching > kernels. Unfortunately, this often takes a bit more knowledge. In > the case of screensavers, a combination of kldload (to load the > desired screensaver) and vidcontrol (to set timeouts and such). man > kldload and man vidcontrol should get you going on this. >
Eric, Thanks for the vidcontrol reference. I didn't realize that screensaver timeout was in vidcontrol; that will give me easy control of screensaver on/off when I want it. Jay O'Brien _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
