From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Fri May 20 16:15:17 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 867F2B448D7 for ; Fri, 20 May 2016 16:15:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from listjm@club.fr) Received: from smtp26.services.sfr.fr (smtp26.services.sfr.fr [93.17.128.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 517D31AAE for ; Fri, 20 May 2016 16:15:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from listjm@club.fr) Received: from [192.168.1.51] (112.180.196.77.rev.sfr.net [77.196.180.112]) by msfrf2603.sfr.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 561341C00640A; Fri, 20 May 2016 18:06:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.51] (112.180.196.77.rev.sfr.net [77.196.180.112]) (Authenticated sender: juanmolina@sfr.fr) by msfrf2603.sfr.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTPA; Fri, 20 May 2016 18:06:44 +0200 (CEST) Authentication-Results: sfr.fr; auth=pass (PLAIN) smtp.auth=juanmolina@sfr.fr To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jmaloney@pcbsd.org References: <1684648736.1635551.1463747238790.JavaMail.zimbra@pcbsd.org> Subject: Re: newcons splash screen From: Juan =?iso-8859-1?b?UmFt824=?= Molina Menor Message-ID: <573F3611.1060607@club.fr> Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 18:06:41 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1684648736.1635551.1463747238790.JavaMail.zimbra@pcbsd.org> X-sfr-mailing: LEGIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 16:15:17 -0000 > Hello, > is it possible to use a splash screen yet with newcons? I've been looking at the source code for VT, and it would appear there has been some work done towards this? > > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/dev/vt/vt.h > > Also the wiki page shows limited support: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons > > I've tried the standard method of enabling a splash screen but it of course does not work. I don't think I was able to get it to work with syscons either whereas it used to work. > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/boot-splash.html > > Is there another way? Or is it still not ready yet? > > Joe Maloney Hi! Maybe you are already aware of it, but in 2014 there was a Google Summer of Code project on improving the bootsplash: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/Bootsplash It worked well with sc(4), but I don’t know wether it applies to vt(4)… Juan