From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 31 12:41:51 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 E484C16A4CE for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 12:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC65D43D41 for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 12:41:51 -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 6E83D2A60ED for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 21:41:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 37747 invoked by uid 1001); 31 May 2004 21:54:14 -0000 Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 21:54:14 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Gao Long Message-ID: <20040531215414.A37702@armor.freesurf.fr> References: <20040528221609.C20758@armor.freesurf.fr> <20040531083958.97124.qmail@web90108.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20040531083958.97124.qmail@web90108.mail.scd.yahoo.com>; from urgaolong@yahoo.com on Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:39:58AM +0100 cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:41:52 -0000 On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:39:58AM +0100, Gao Long wrote: > Thanks for your advice and interest:) > > I noticed that KGI is a big frame work of a console graphical > > driver infrastrauture , while my idea is so simple that it can not recognize > > any movie file format, it needs just a soft timer and some bmp pictures , Simple ideas are the good ones ;) > and show up a short animation. It will base itself on the fb and splash > > module (maybe kgi afterwards:) , on which I think I may get some help > > from you , cause I always feel lack of syscons knowledge . Additionally I don't have particular skills on syscons. But once done on syscons, I'll rapidly get it working for KGI as I did with the splash to have the background daemon. > the console swithing systems may also be helpful to me as I may want > > to switch to another virtual console when the current virtual console > > is busy splashing the moving pictures. > > It is good to have the daemon dancing on the black console from the > > startup , isn't it :) Definitely! It should be simple first. Loadable modules like splash decoders would enable adding support for more complex formats in the future... -- Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD