Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 09:57:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, brandon@glacier.cold.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <199609221457.JAA14843@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199609221000.DAA00408@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 22, 96 03:00:13 am
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> > You're in a difficult situation... even a static GIF image would probably > > be difficult because you don't know what you have for console until you > > have probed the video.. animation I would think is out of the question > > due to the way I understand the kernel works during the probe phase. > > Animation is possible using color register cycling. This is how the > "startrek" bar of the Microsoft "Plus! Pack" is animated. If you have the appropriate graphics depth available, _maybe_... can't remember enough about PC graphics to figure out if normal VGA is 16 or 256 colors.. 16 obviously would not fly. However, I thought that interrupts were not guaranteed during the probe phase... or maybe not even allowed. ... JG
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