From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 30 23:59:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D0A150E0 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:58:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.2/8.9.2/UCB) id KAA50378; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:56:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:56:27 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Tim Preece Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: splash screen pseudo-device Message-ID: <19990331105627.A40752@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Tim Preece , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199903302149.WAA18130@franklin.matlink> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199903302149.WAA18130@franklin.matlink>; from Tim Preece on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:49:17PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:49:17PM +0100, Tim Preece wrote: > Hi, > > After reading Nathans reply to Spidey he mentioned the spash screen - not a > problem as it is somewhat superflous but I have tried to use this but get no > splash as I expected. > > I presume it is to provide splash at boot, if so how is it implemented, I have > pseudo-device splash in my kernel and have tried load splash_bmp in my > loader.rc but have not experienced anything - do i need to supply a bmp or > something > > Thanks for any info on this > > Tim Read the splash(4) manpage, and its ``EXAMPLE'' section. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message