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From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, ponds!ravenock.cybercity.dk!sos
Subject: Re: What happened to the splash screen?
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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. -