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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:04:47 +0100 (CET)
From:      BOUWSMA Beery <freebsd-user@dcf77-zeit.netscum.dyndns.dk>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Silly splash! questions
Message-ID:  <200203201904.g2KJ4lF03918@beerswilling.netscum.dyndns.dk>

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Woo hoo.  Splash screens are fun.

Is there a way, from the commandline, without rebooting, to unload
the already-loaded from /boot/loader.conf splash_image_data file,
and load a different one in its place?  `kldstat -v' seems to show
nothing about the splash image that dmesg reveals as
| Preloaded elf module "splash_bmp.ko" at 0xc03b709c.
| Preloaded elf module "vesa.ko" at 0xc03b7140.
| Preloaded splash_image_data "/boot/LOGOW.SYS" at 0xc03b71dc.

Nextly, given that I have a few bitmaps of format 320 x 400 x 8,
which seems to be rather far from the available VESA resolutions,
I've hacked my splash_bmp.c k0deZ to scale images like /boot/LOGOS.SYS
from 320x400 to full-screen, which actually seems to work and looks
much better (for some definition of `better').

Is the general consensus that bitmaps should be displayed in their
original size, also when less than the full screen is used or when
a 320x400 image like /boot/logo.sys is displayed on 640x480 squished
to half the `proper' width, or is there a demand for a swell-to-fit
type of splash_bmp in addition, or instead?  I can see how both are
potentially a Good Thing...


thanks,
barry bouwsma


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