From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 3 9:14:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB0C15043 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id SAA42410; Mon, 3 May 1999 18:14:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Kelly Yancey Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new loader question / module question References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 03 May 1999 18:14:11 +0200 In-Reply-To: Kelly Yancey's message of "Mon, 3 May 1999 12:12:50 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kelly Yancey writes: > On 3 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > No. The image is a module as any other. > So it should be possible to unload it right? I'm not at home right now > so I can't try kldunload. If you can unload it, what happens if the user > hits the saver key? I don't think you can unload preloaded modules - I'm not sure. > > What's wrong with sysctls? > Where was my head :) Works for me. Maybe sysctl knobs under kern.splash? > Really, where should they go? *not* under kern.splash, since the splash decoders are syscons- specific (I don't think they work with pcvt). > 320x240 is currently in syscons and that is interleaved. And believe it > or not...320x240 looks a lot nicer than 320x200. And not to hold Windows > up as a shining example of the way things ought to be, but I'm almost > positive their splash screen is actually 320x240 mode X. No, it's 320x400. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message