Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:30:54 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org> To: Claire Q'vant <clair3_q@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tradeshow Crowd Pullers Message-ID: <20030812233054.GA14527@webserver> In-Reply-To: <20030812225329.41723.qmail@web21507.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030812225329.41723.qmail@web21507.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:53:29PM +0100 or thereabouts, Claire Q'vant wrote: > We're going to have a booth at a trade show in a few > months, and we'd like to have a few machines running > FreeBSD for people to play with. > > But, as a crowd puller, it'd be nice to have a > graphical bootup sequence. > > I know it's not the 'done thing' for a server OS, but > for a workstation OS, it's a very nice touch. > > Does anyone know of any code to do it? > Any projects already started? > > I'm aware it'll have to be a kernel module, as it's > the only thing running at that stage. > > I don't know if VGL and VESA will do it - it handles > the 'splash' modules ok, but this module would require > sysctl's to tell the module to display the next icon, > e.g. > Starting Network (greyed out icon) > Network Started ok (Coloured icon) > Network Start Failed (Coloured with cross through it) > > Has anyone seen anything like this? > Is anyone keen? Yep, I have, twice, on Linux. :-( 1) The Linux bootsplash project (www.bootsplash.org IIRC) can do like FBSD ``splash'' module but with a progress bar. Also gives VCs a background pic. 2) Mandrake Linux does something a LOT like this. It doesn't cover up the kernel messages as it's not a kernel module; it starts as soon as the root fs is mounted. Basically, it involves starting up a minimal X server. Yes, on Linux X can run on the framebuffer (SC_PIXEL_MODE). Not sure whether it can on FBSD too. Then a custom X program was run to do exactly what you're talking about. You may be able to use a combination of splash.ko and a custom X program to do what you want. -- Josh > > Claire > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! > Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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