Date: 03 Jul 1999 19:58:47 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Jim Mock <jim@advocacy.FreeBSD.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash Screens (was Re: 3.2-RELEASE Feedback) Message-ID: <xzp908xwr6w.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Randall Hopper's message of "Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:22:32 -0400" References: <19990626184311.A5290@ipass.net> <xzpu2rnw45a.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990702170854.A2009@ipass.net> <xzpr9mqw09m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990703132232.A862@ipass.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> writes: > Ok, I didn't know what to do with: > > include /boot/loader.4th > start > > which were already in this file, so I commented them out. I was lucky. They're not much use unless you want to use loader.conf (loader.4th reads loader.conf and does magic stuff as directed by variables defined there, much like /etc/rc does magic stuff as directed by /etc/rc.conf) > So I went splash shopping. I use the Saturn pics myself, though for some mysterious reason they're not on the advocacy site. They're by far the best splash screens I've seen, as they were designed specifically for that purpose (rather than just being *adapted* to that purpose). I think they're on John Baldwin's site (there's a link from the advocacy page), but I can't get through to it right now so I can't check. > One more question. The VESA module: what mode does it decide to switch to? > Does it pick the first 8bpp palettized VESA mode registered which is bigger > than the pic? Will it switch up to modes like 1280x1024, if registered > with VESA? Just curious. The VESA module doesn't switch to anything or make any decisions. The splash decoders behave slightly differently: the BMP decoder picks the largest available mode (1024x768, 800x600, 640x480, 320x200) while the PCX decoder picks the smallest available mode which is large enough to accomodate the picture. (I want the BMP decoder to go away, but it seems to be too well-anchored for that right now, though it suffers from slight bitrot because I don't maintain it actively) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?xzp908xwr6w.fsf>