From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 16 18:37:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA15381 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 18:37:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA15367 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 18:37:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA19187; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:39:10 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:39:10 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: John-Mark Gurney cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: boot messages (Was: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > > > The splash-screen is actually implemented as an alternate display mode for > > a single VT. But you're not paying attention : it is NOT POSSIBLE to > > detect keystrokes on the console while the device probes are running, > > because interrupts are Turned Off. > > this may sound like a stupid question.. but can you check the > keyboard between probes to see if there are any keypresses.... I remeber > here a post a few days ago saying the keyboard control had a 16byte > buffer.. so the keypress would still be around wouldn't it? it just needs > to get pulled... During probes hit . Nothing happens, but when probing finishes, the screen jumps back. This is a possibility for thought, but I'll let Mike give a more definitive comment. I don't know aything about checking the kbd between probes. Danny