Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 13:29:05 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk (Søren Schmidt) Cc: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happened to the splash screen? Message-ID: <199702060259.NAA29537@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199702051445.PAA00531@ravenock.cybercity.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Feb 5, 97 03:44:54 pm"
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Søren Schmidt stands accused of saying: > In reply to Mr M P Searle who wrote: > > There was a discussion on this list a while ago about a possible > > 'splash screen' while booting - I remember a lot of suggestions > > about it, but did it ever get done? (if so, can someone send me > > the patches?) > > Uhm, the basic support has been added to syscons, all that is needed > is a function to read the actual image and put it into the videomemory > depending on what mode has been chosen. There's code to do 320x200x256 .bmp files if that's any help. Soren was looking for some code to do 640x480x16 images; I just need to extract the digit and rewrite my (wrong) 4-plane pixel-set routine. There was also a problem with VGA font corruption; did that get fixed Soren? The last difficulty is that during device probes, interrupts are turned off so you can't hotkey between the splash and the probe display. > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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