From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 18:40:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.FiberONE.NET [139.142.245.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF1C814F0D for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Received: from sasknow.com (ntstn [10.0.0.2]) by sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA15934; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:41:03 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Message-ID: <379D0E30.90A4CA85@sasknow.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:41:04 -0600 From: "Ryan Thompson [FreeBSD]" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joao Carlos , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash screen References: <199907242215.TAA03835@postman.bahianet.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joao Carlos wrote: > > is really needed to me o rebuild world for using splash screen and the vesa module? > So radical! > > Thanks You shouldn't need to build world for the splash screen! You'll have to add a few lines to your kernel, though, if they're not already there: /sys/i386/conf/------------------------------------------ options VESA # Static VESA support pseudo-device splash # The splash screen module options "VM86" # x86 virtual machines (for vesa) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow the straightforward handbook directions on rebuilding your kernel if you are unsure. Before you boot your new kernel though, you'll likely have to change a few things in /boot: A typical /boot/loader.conf------------------------------------------- # Splash screen splash_bmp_load="YES" vesa_load="NO" # Since we built it into the kernel already bitmap_load="YES" userconfig_script_load="YES" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Then, find a nice bitmap (in a decent screen resolution-640x480 or higher would be good), and move it to /boot/splash.bmp. I believe in -STABLE, you're limited to a 256 colour bitmap. This may have been updated in 4.0-CURRENT, though. Try man splash for any version-specific stuff there may be. Virtually yours, Ryan Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message