From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 17:18:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA82537B401 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.visp.com.au (gw.visp.com.au [202.6.158.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B3A43FBD for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@spyderweb.com.au) Received: from bofh.spyderweb.com.au ([202.6.150.54]) by gw.visp.com.au (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h7D0QKqU047070 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:56:21 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from tim@spyderweb.com.au) Received: from spyderweb.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1])h7D0I9AR007273 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:48:12 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from tim@spyderweb.com.au) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:48:08 +0930 From: Tim Aslat To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030813094808.09e4e231.tim@spyderweb.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030812235709.21128.qmail@web21502.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030812233054.GA14527@webserver> <20030812235709.21128.qmail@web21502.mail.yahoo.com> Organization: Spyderweb Consulting X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Tradeshow Crowd Pullers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:18:21 -0000 In the immortal words of Claire Q'vant ... > Hmm. Starting X(albeit minimal) is not what I'm after, > as it needs to appear as soon as the kernel is loaded > - directly after the POST screen... > The filesystem isn't mounted for a while after that, > as the kernel detects hardware, and sets out > resources, etc, and I'd like that to be > graphical(represented, at least) > > It's worth consideration though, if nothing else > happens... This might be a stupid suggestion, but wouldn't it be simpler just to hack the splash kernel module? A couple of days of messing around might come up with something that approximates what you are looking for. If all you want is eye-candy for impressing people, then it shouldn't matter that it doesn't actually do anything. Cheers -- Tim Aslat Spyderweb Consulting http://www.spyderweb.com.au P: 82243020 M: 0401088479