From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 21 18:30:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA24230 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 18:30:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (s205m1.whistle.com [207.76.205.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA24200 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 18:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA08890; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 18:28:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <324495EC.446B9B3D@whistle.com> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 18:27:08 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brandon Gillespie CC: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brandon Gillespie wrote: > the system probes. At first I was not sure what the problem was, until I > realized he had never seen this type of behaviour before, and assumed it > was errors or some other similar problem--and even after a bit of > explaning he was still somewhat uncomfortable with it. > On the interjet we have a 128x64 bit LCD as the 'console' we have a module that we link in with a SYSINIT entry soitidoesn't need any patches anwhere else.. it just throws up a bitmap of our logo. it wouldn't be hard to do similar for a screen it just needs to be an appropriatly compressed file.. and an 'expander'.. of course I wouldn't want that bloat in MY system, but yes..