Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 08:45:41 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@glacier.cold.org> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960922084404.15343A-100000@glacier.cold.org> In-Reply-To: <199609221100.UAA20269@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > The problem with animation during startup is that during the device > probes (the bits that the original proposition was trying to cover > with the splash (bad idea IMHO, but I understand the reasoning)), you > can't guarantee that you will get your interrupt regularly to do your > palette cycles. The animation would be cheezy to say the least. I > don't actually thingk that animation is terribly useful. > > You'll note that Microsoft's W95 startup page shuffles a little band > across the bottom (I suspect that they aren't cycling but I never > bothered to count the colours on the screen), but then this band > disappears for a while... now I wonder why 8) You could count the devices and just do a progress bar, adding to it after each device is probed.. -Brandon Gillespie
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