Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 15:26:44 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: ponds!ponds!rivers (Thomas David Rivers) Cc: ponds!atrad.adelaide.edu.au!msmith, ponds!ponds!ravenock.cybercity.dk!sos, ponds!ponds!csv.warwick.ac.uk!csubl, ponds!ponds!FreeBSD.ORG!hackers Subject: Re: What happened to the splash screen? Message-ID: <199702060456.PAA00727@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199702060443.XAA26253@lakes.water.net> from Thomas David Rivers at "Feb 5, 97 11:43:05 pm"
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Thomas David Rivers stands accused of saying: > > > > 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? What's "meaningful"? With a single VGA bitmap in the kernel, the bloat for the splash screen runs to about 70K. Short of having a seperate monochrome image, or a F/S dither, it'll just ignore the splash and probe as normal. > - Dave R. - -- ]] 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 [[
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