From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 6 18:34:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA19331 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 May 1997 18:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19324; Tue, 6 May 1997 18:34:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA15978; Wed, 7 May 1997 11:04:12 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705070134.LAA15978@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit In-Reply-To: <19970506190102.08747@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "May 6, 97 07:01:02 pm" To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 11:04:11 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Randall Hopper stands accused of saying: > > I'd leave it enabled in my kernel with a nifty picture if it would > auto-dismiss itself when booting gets to the syscons login prompt. Hmm, I don't actually think it should disappear with the login prompt; it should stay there being pretty if the system isn't being dinked with. Currently, I am leaning towards having it disappear on any keypress. > The only bug/feature I've noticed with it so far is: > > - If I start X with the splash on, works OK, but bringing down yields a > corrupted screen (guess it doesn't kick-in a redraw when switching > out of syscons mode) Hmm, X _shouldn't_ work with the splash on, although I suspect that it depends on your hardware. > - Simple pixel or palette animation support. Not just because it'd look > cool, but because a splash screen should let the user know at a glance > that the machine isn't locked up. Also makes the time it takes the > machine to boot-up seem shorter. There's some provision for palette rotation already; the real problem is just arranging for the rotation on a useful basis - the console driver only runs when text is output, so colours would only shift during character output (not a bad idea though). > - A MSW95 LOGO.SYS converter for lifting cool pre-built splash pages > of the net and flipping them into FreeBSD :-) (Slap me, I'm dreaming :-) I'm sure they're just BMP images slapped on the back of an executable... > Randall Hopper Basically, I'm strapped for time (2 assignments and a 10min presentation 1000km away to complete in the next week, and then it's exam-cram time) just now, but I'll bear this in mind next I get a chance to work on it. Ta! -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[