From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 5 19:00:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA07441 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 19:00:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07433 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 19:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id NAA29537; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 13:29:07 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702060259.NAA29537@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: What happened to the splash screen? In-Reply-To: <199702051445.PAA00531@ravenock.cybercity.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Feb 5, 97 03:44:54 pm" To: sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk (Søren Schmidt) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 13:29:05 +1030 (CST) Cc: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Søren Schmidt stands accused of saying: > In reply to Mr M P Searle who wrote: > > There was a discussion on this list a while ago about a possible > > 'splash screen' while booting - I remember a lot of suggestions > > about it, but did it ever get done? (if so, can someone send me > > the patches?) > > Uhm, the basic support has been added to syscons, all that is needed > is a function to read the actual image and put it into the videomemory > depending on what mode has been chosen. There's code to do 320x200x256 .bmp files if that's any help. Soren was looking for some code to do 640x480x16 images; I just need to extract the digit and rewrite my (wrong) 4-plane pixel-set routine. There was also a problem with VGA font corruption; did that get fixed Soren? The last difficulty is that during device probes, interrupts are turned off so you can't hotkey between the splash and the probe display. > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team -- ]] 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 [[