From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 12 01:09:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA05523 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 01:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA05502; Mon, 12 May 1997 01:08:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA05836; Mon, 12 May 1997 17:38:37 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705120808.RAA05836@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit In-Reply-To: <19970507064722.04811@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "May 7, 97 06:47:22 am" To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:38:37 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, msmith@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Randall Hopper stands accused of saying: > Michael Smith: > |Randall Hopper stands accused of saying: > |> I'd leave it enabled in my kernel with a nifty picture if it would > |> auto-dismiss itself when booting gets to the syscons login prompt. > | > |Hmm, I don't actually think it should disappear with the login prompt; > |it should stay there being pretty if the system isn't being dinked with. > | > |Currently, I am leaning towards having it disappear on any keypress. > > Hmmm, not sure I understand where you're coming from. If you're > sitting at the text login prompt, why would you want the splash page to > stay up? If it's a server in a droid-heavy environment, eg., or otherwise needs to look "pretty". > Sounds good. How does one make use of it? A quick scan of the > patched syscons.c doesn't reveal it to me. I see where the palette is > loaded from the BMP and where its dumped to the VGA, but I don't find any > mention of the palette rotation (except in a comment). That's it 8). Seriously, I got sidetracked looking for a BMP editor that was capable of actually letting you pick colour numbers for palette entries and didn't sit down to write the shifter; it's quite trivial. > Randall -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[