From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 04:09:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A7716A4CE for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 04:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7446843D48 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 04:09:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@pepcross.dyndns.org) Received: from pepcross.dyndns.org ([82.33.89.176]) by smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Thu, 27 May 2004 12:08:59 +0100 Received: (from steve@localhost) by pepcross.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i4RB970N003503; Thu, 27 May 2004 12:09:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from steve) Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:09:07 +0100 From: Steve Roome To: Gao Long Message-ID: <20040527110907.GA3449@dylan.home> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Roome , Gao Long , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <20040526140706.71381.qmail@web90104.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040526140706.71381.qmail@web90104.mail.scd.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 May 2004 11:09:00.0599 (UTC) FILETIME=[03549470:01C443DB] cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dancing with the daemon X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:09:46 -0000 On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:07:06PM +0100, Gao Long wrote: > There are still some things to do to accomplish it , it there any one who > > is already doing it ? Or could I get any kind of suggestions ? I wrote a syscons screensaver before by hacking up a new loadable module which drew what I wanted on the screen. It's asking for trouble though, surely this isn't stuff to put in the kernel, or even a module. A better approach would be to pull the damn modules out of the kernel and have one module that hands console output (vgl perhaps) to a userland program. If you can put up with a just after boot movie player then that would be far easier and more sensible than having an in kernel movie player. You could have a boot splash that says "Loading Movie Player", and then when everything is up and running go from there in userland. In my humble opinion etc. etc. Steve Roome