From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 22 07:43:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA20050 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 07:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from glacier.cold.org (glacier.cold.org [206.81.134.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA20021 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 07:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brandon@localhost) by glacier.cold.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA15351; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 08:45:42 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 08:45:41 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. In-Reply-To: <199609221100.UAA20269@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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