Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 23:01:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: dk+@ua.net Cc: alexis@dawn.ww.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <199610042101.XAA00376@SandBox.CyberCity.dk> In-Reply-To: <199610042041.NAA23948@dog.farm.org> from "Dmitry Kohmanyuk" at Oct 4, 96 01:41:27 pm
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In reply to Dmitry Kohmanyuk who wrote: > > > In article <199610031005.OAA17905@dawn.ww.net> you wrote: > > In article <522lho$g8l@sunset.ww.net> you wrote: > > > On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, Jim Durham wrote: > > > > Amen... can you imagine what would happen if the system didn't > > > > boot? No boot...no reading var/log/messages to see what happened.. > > > > Uhrm, it was nestled at the end of a paragraph, but I figured it would > > > work like 95 where a simply hitting 'tab' or something similar would > > > toggle the two windows. > > > Put the splash screen on ttyv1 for example and switch there. > > If you want your console back switch to ttyv0? NO!, syscons does this transparently on the console, no ttyv? > Remember, sc0 is an ISA device, and PCI is probed before ISA (at least in > current). It was the syscons' job to put to logo on, right? The LOGO appears right at the start, just as soon as the kernel is loaded... > Then, assuming abpout switching to ttyv1 for our graphics, how about > /etc/rc messages? They are also left on ttyv0, yes? Great. Then, > the getty starts and it would switch back to text mode? Or do we > have to run special utility just to ioctl() /dev/ttyv1? Or maybe > we'd just start xdm, having ttyv1 free. This way, the system would come > into graphics login screen. All output to /dev/console are saved and can be viewed on ttyv0 as usual... Depending on what is then run, you can customise what to do... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..
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