From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 23:50: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B9714F37 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 23:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10fHyr-0001x7-0A; Thu, 6 May 1999 06:50:01 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id HAA01865; Thu, 6 May 1999 07:49:32 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA02076; Thu, 6 May 1999 07:49:30 +0100 Message-ID: <37313B36.94A6473E@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 07:48:22 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Splash Screen References: <99050601211300.00387@stratos.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rob wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was reading that if you install a splash screen, you can clear it so > that you can see the boot messages by pressing any key. The man > page for splash did say that it might take a few seconds for the boot > procedure to capture the key press and clear the splash image while > it's probling different devices, but it never seems to work for me until > it's finished. > Are there any tips to make it easier to clear the splash screen, or > is it pretty much tough luck? > It won't clear until it starts reading rc.conf, after the disk probes. > Also, I am using an ATI Mach64 video card. Does this card have > VESA mode for larger splash images? I tried enabling VESA in by > loader.rc file per the instructions, but loading of The Matrix image failed > with an error message I don't remember now -- but I can post if any > one is interested... > Same problem here. ATI cards (mine's an Xpert@Work, Rage Pro II) don't have the VESA extensions in the PROM. If you need VESA resolutions under DOS (for games etc) you have to load a TSR (M64VBE.??? from the driver disk). I guess this could be done as a kld, loaded the same way as the VESA and splash ones. There is a "developers club" at ATI's website (http://www.atitech.com) which I guess is where programming info is available. Can you write device drivers? HTH > Thanks, > > -- > > - Rob > drifter@stratos.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message