From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 16:56:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-ether.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.1.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFB137B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA14802; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 01:56:50 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <39F4D041.75FA3D50@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 01:56:49 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjengland@look.ca Cc: Francesco Maiorca , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Splash Screen: same error! References: <20001023214522.07BB037B479@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > I actually received a lot of responses with people saying the same thing. I have not heard any > splash screen success stories for 4.1 and above. I figure it's a kernel issue but never > received any confirmation from anyone of importortance. Just for the archives: My splash screen is still working. su-2.04# uname -a FreeBSD mycomputer.mydomain.de 4.1.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #0: Thu Oct 19 02:38:07 CEST 2000 myname@mycomputer.mydomain.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 su-2.04# bash-2.04$ cat /boot/loader.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # autoboot_delay="2" userconfig_script_load="YES" splash_bmp_load="YES" bitmap_load="YES" bash-2.04 su-2.04# ls -l /boot/splash.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 787510 9 Aug 07:20 /boot/splash.bmp su-2.04# This is Chuck on a hill in the sun, from some FreeBSD website in 1024*768/256 indexed colors. And all of my friends turn pale, when they see him a few seconds after the first boot stage ;-) BTW, if you want to see the log messages, press the shift button and the splash screen will disappear. Found this by accident, is this somewhere in the docs? Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message