From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 5 01:20:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA02926 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 01:20:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SandBox.CyberCity.dk ([194.16.57.128]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA02919 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 01:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by SandBox.CyberCity.dk (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA00376; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 23:01:04 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199610042101.XAA00376@SandBox.CyberCity.dk> Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. To: dk+@ua.net Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 23:01:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Soren Schmidt" Cc: alexis@dawn.ww.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199610042041.NAA23948@dog.farm.org> from "Dmitry Kohmanyuk" at Oct 4, 96 01:41:27 pm From: sos@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..