This package should be marked as unmaintained or obsolete. Used FreeBSD version: - FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE releng/13.1-n250148-fc952ac2212 GENERIC amd64 Reasons: - Description in the package how you should configure it, leads just to errors. - Link in the "Makefile" to the homepage (https://mato.gamato.org/freebsd/) of the maintainer is dead.
*** Bug 268096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 268097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I did dig a little deeper, to find the root why this package is not working anymore. - I believe, the main reason is that in 2013 FreeBSD switched from syscons(4) to vt(4) (virtual terminal console driver also known as the "Newcons" project). See: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons - There is also another bug report (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210432) that boot time splash screen does not work with vt. - I see, that the documentation was updated, but the man pages are not completed. - I can get the boot splash, screensaver to work, if I force the kernel to use the syscons driver with an entry in /boo/loader.conf -> kern.vty="sc" - Why keeping old drivers and old packages alive for so a long time, if nobody is willing to maintains it?