Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 23:43:05 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, ponds!ravenock.cybercity.dk!sos Cc: ponds!csv.warwick.ac.uk!csubl, ponds!FreeBSD.ORG!hackers Subject: Re: What happened to the splash screen? Message-ID: <199702060443.XAA26253@lakes.water.net>
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> S=F8ren 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?) > >=20 > > 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=20 > 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. I'm just curious; if this were to get "put in" - would it do something meaningful on monochrome (i.e. Hercules compatible) displays? > > > S=F8ren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD C= > ore Team > - Dave R. -
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