From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 10 20:28:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4455316A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web25001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web25001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.10.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 899E743D31 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:28:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keshav_tadimeti@yahoo.co.uk) Message-ID: <20040411032816.8915.qmail@web25001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Received: from [147.60.1.195] by web25001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 04:28:16 BST Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 04:28:16 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tadimeti=20Keshav?= To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: enabling splash screen delays booting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 03:28:18 -0000 hi all, I wanted to have an image flash up on the screen instead of having to watch lines scroll on the screen when the system boots up. (device splash is enabled in GENERIC by default) SO I did: 1.kldload splash_bmp 2.then copied a BMP file(PEA.bmp) to /boot/kernel 3. to /boot/loader.conf 3.1 splash_bmp_load="YES" 3.2 bitmap_load="YES" 3.3 bitmap_name="PEA.bmp" (as I am writing this mail away from the BSD m/c, I realise that I am not sure the BMP is 320*200 & is probably more than 256 colours) When I rebooted, all I saw was text, then the BSD devil (beastie) and then text again. Since I did not see my desired BMP, I kldunload'ed the splash_bmp, and commented out the lines from /boot/loader.conf BSD "beastie" is not my default screen saver - green saver is. Now when I reboot the m/c, all I get is a blank screen (probably my current GREEN screen saver) instead of the BSD devil. Why is the screen saver getting picked up now that SPLASH has been disabled? Or is there some other problem? Any help will be appreciated. TIA rgds, ===== -- K E S H A V T A D I M E T I -- ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html