Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 23:01:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: dk+@ua.net Cc: alexis@dawn.ww.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <199610042101.XAA00376@SandBox.CyberCity.dk> In-Reply-To: <199610042041.NAA23948@dog.farm.org> from "Dmitry Kohmanyuk" at Oct 4, 96 01:41:27 pm
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In reply to Dmitry Kohmanyuk who wrote:
>
>
> In article <199610031005.OAA17905@dawn.ww.net> you wrote:
> > In article <522lho$g8l@sunset.ww.net> you wrote:
> > > On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, Jim Durham wrote:
> > > > Amen... can you imagine what would happen if the system didn't
> > > > boot? No boot...no reading var/log/messages to see what happened..
>
> > > Uhrm, it was nestled at the end of a paragraph, but I figured it would
> > > work like 95 where a simply hitting 'tab' or something similar would
> > > toggle the two windows.
>
> > Put the splash screen on ttyv1 for example and switch there.
> > If you want your console back switch to ttyv0?
NO!, syscons does this transparently on the console, no ttyv?
> Remember, sc0 is an ISA device, and PCI is probed before ISA (at least in
> current). It was the syscons' job to put to logo on, right?
The LOGO appears right at the start, just as soon as the kernel
is loaded...
> Then, assuming abpout switching to ttyv1 for our graphics, how about
> /etc/rc messages? They are also left on ttyv0, yes? Great. Then,
> the getty starts and it would switch back to text mode? Or do we
> have to run special utility just to ioctl() /dev/ttyv1? Or maybe
> we'd just start xdm, having ttyv1 free. This way, the system would come
> into graphics login screen.
All output to /dev/console are saved and can be viewed on ttyv0 as
usual... Depending on what is then run, you can customise what
to do...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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