Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 06:47:22 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: msmith@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit Message-ID: <19970507064722.04811@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199705070134.LAA15978@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Wed, May 07, 1997 at 11:04:11AM %2B0930 References: <19970506190102.08747@ct.picker.com> <199705070134.LAA15978@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Michael Smith:
|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.
Hmmm, not sure I understand where you're coming from. If you're
sitting at the text login prompt, why would you want the splash page to
stay up?
Seems to me that the purpose of a splash is to hide all the start-up
messages, and give the user something cool to look at that lets them know
the machine's not locked up.
I guess it'd be the same deal if one had xdm installed. Splash page
should stay up until the xdm login pops up.
|There's some provision for palette rotation already; the real problem is
|just arranging for the rotation on a useful basis - the console driver
Sounds good. How does one make use of it? A quick scan of the
patched syscons.c doesn't reveal it to me. I see where the palette is
loaded from the BMP and where its dumped to the VGA, but I don't find any
mention of the palette rotation (except in a comment).
Randall
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