From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 28 13:04:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CCBA16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 13:04:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0EB43D3F for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 13:03:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsouch@free.fr) Received: from smtp.freesurf.fr (62-240-249-21.adsl.freesurf.fr [62.240.249.21]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id F14912A5913 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 22:03:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 20862 invoked by uid 1001); 28 May 2004 22:16:09 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 22:16:09 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Gao Long , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040528221609.C20758@armor.freesurf.fr> References: <20040526140706.71381.qmail@web90104.mail.scd.yahoo.com> <20040527110907.GA3449@dylan.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20040527110907.GA3449@dylan.home>; from stephen_roome@pepcross.com on Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:09:07PM +0100 cc: walkyrie@meloo.com Subject: Re: dancing with the daemon X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 20:04:00 -0000 On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:09:07PM +0100, Steve Roome wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:07:06PM +0100, Gao Long wrote: > > There are still some things to do to accomplish it , it there any one who > > > > is already doing it ? Or could I get any kind of suggestions ? > > I wrote a syscons screensaver before by hacking up a new loadable module > which drew what I wanted on the screen. It's asking for trouble though, > surely this isn't stuff to put in the kernel, or even a module. > > A better approach would be to pull the damn modules out of the kernel > and have one module that hands console output (vgl perhaps) > to a userland program. > > If you can put up with a just after boot movie player then that would be > far easier and more sensible than having an in kernel movie player. > > You could have a boot splash that says "Loading Movie Player", and then > when everything is up and running go from there in userland. No keep it in the kernel for the very early boot! Look the screenshots at http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD and be sure I'll do something with your code ;) -- Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD