Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:59:06 -0700 (PDT) From: jobaldwi@vt.edu To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/12644: [PATCH] New FAQ entry: "How do I install splash screens and where?" Message-ID: <19990715035906.C89B1154B1@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 12644
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [PATCH] New FAQ entry: "How do I install splash screens and where?"
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jul 14 21:00:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: John Baldwin
>Release: n/a
>Organization:
>Environment:
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>Description:
A patch that contains a new FAQ entry for the X and syscons section
that covers installation of splash screens, as well as a URL to find
them at.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Index: x.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/doc/FAQ/x.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 x.sgml
--- x.sgml 1999/04/10 00:03:58 1.8
+++ x.sgml 1999/07/15 03:20:51
@@ -368,5 +368,91 @@
<p>Run the command <tt/ xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"/ from your .xinitrc or .xsession.
</p>
</sect1>
+
+ <sect1>
+ <heading>How do I install a splash screen and where do I find them?
+ </heading>
+
+ <p>Just prior to the release of FreeBSD 3.1, a new feature was
+ added to allow the display of "splash" screens during
+ the boot messages. The splash screens currently must be a 256
+ color bitmap (<tt>*.BMP</tt>) or ZSoft PCX
+ (<tt>*.PCX</tt>) file. In addition, they must have a
+ resolution of 320x200 or less to work on standard VGA adapters.
+ If you compile VESA support into your kernel, then you can use
+ larger bitmaps up to 1024x768. Note that VESA support requires
+ the <tt>VM86</tt> kernel option to be compiled into the
+ kernel. The actual VESA support can either be compiled directly
+ into the kernel with the <tt>VESA</tt> kernel config option
+ or by loading the VESA kld module during bootup.</p>
+
+ <p>To use a splash screen, you need to modify the startup files
+ that control the boot process for FreeBSD. The files for this
+ changed prior to the release of FreeBSD 3.2, so there are now
+ two ways of loading a splash screen:
+
+ <itemize>
+ <item>FreeBSD 3.1
+
+ <p>The first step is to find a bitmap version of your splash
+ screen. Release 3.1 only supports Windows bitmap splash
+ screens. Once you've found your splash screen of choice
+ copy it to <tt>/boot/splash.bmp</tt>. Next, you need to
+ have a <tt>/boot/loader.rc</tt> file that contains the
+ following lines:
+
+ <verb>
+ load kernel
+ load -t splash_image_data /boot/splash.bmp
+ load splash_bmp
+ autoboot
+ </verb>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>FreeBSD 3.2+
+
+ <p>In addition to adding support for PCX splash screens,
+ FreeBSD 3.2 includes a nicer way of configuring the boot
+ process. If you wish, you can use the method listed above
+ for FreeBSD 3.1. If you do and you want to use PCX, replace
+ <tt>splash_bmp</tt> with <tt>splash_pcx</tt>. If,
+ on the other hand, you want to use the newer boot
+ configuration, you need to create a
+ <tt>/boot/loader.rc</tt> file that contains the
+ following lines:
+
+ <verb>
+ include /boot/loader.4th
+ start
+ </verb>
+
+ <p>and a <tt>/boot/loader.conf</tt> that contains the
+ following:
+
+ <verb>
+ splash_bmp_load="YES"
+ bitmap_load="YES"
+ </verb>
+
+ <p>This assumes you are using <tt>/boot/splash.bmp</tt>
+ for your splash screen. If you'd rather use a PCX file,
+ copy it to <tt>/boot/splash.pcx</tt>, create a
+ <tt>/boot/loader.rc</tt> as instructed above, and
+ create a <tt>/boot/loader.conf</tt> that contains:
+
+ <verb>
+ splash_pcx_load="YES"
+ bitmap_load="YES"
+ bitmap_name="/boot/splash.pcx"
+ </verb>
+ </item>
+ </itemize>
+
+ <p>Now all you need is a splash screen. For that you can surf
+ on over to the gallery at <htmlurl
+ url="http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/splash/"
+ name="http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/splash/">.</p>;
+
+ </sect1>
</sect>
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