Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 21:54:14 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr> To: Gao Long <urgaolong@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dancing with the daemon Message-ID: <20040531215414.A37702@armor.freesurf.fr> In-Reply-To: <20040531083958.97124.qmail@web90108.mail.scd.yahoo.com>; from urgaolong@yahoo.com on Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:39:58AM %2B0100 References: <20040528221609.C20758@armor.freesurf.fr> <20040531083958.97124.qmail@web90108.mail.scd.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:39:58AM +0100, Gao Long wrote: > Thanks for your advice and interest:) > > I noticed that KGI is a big frame work of a console graphical > > driver infrastrauture , while my idea is so simple that it can not recognize > > any movie file format, it needs just a soft timer and some bmp pictures , Simple ideas are the good ones ;) > and show up a short animation. It will base itself on the fb and splash > > module (maybe kgi afterwards:) , on which I think I may get some help > > from you , cause I always feel lack of syscons knowledge . Additionally I don't have particular skills on syscons. But once done on syscons, I'll rapidly get it working for KGI as I did with the splash to have the background daemon. > the console swithing systems may also be helpful to me as I may want > > to switch to another virtual console when the current virtual console > > is busy splashing the moving pictures. > > It is good to have the daemon dancing on the black console from the > > startup , isn't it :) Definitely! It should be simple first. Loadable modules like splash decoders would enable adding support for more complex formats in the future... -- Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD
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