Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:55:53 -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: <20030813005553.GA32267@webserver> In-Reply-To: <20030812235709.21128.qmail@web21502.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030812233054.GA14527@webserver> <20030812235709.21128.qmail@web21502.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:57:09AM +0100 or thereabouts, Claire Q'vant wrote: > --- Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org> wrote: > 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? > > > [ ... ] > > You may be able to use a combination of splash.ko > > and a custom X program to do what you want. > > > > -- Josh > > > > > > > > Claire > Hmm. Starting X(albeit minimal) is not what I'm after, > as it needs to appear as soon as the kernel is loaded > - directly after the POST screen... > The filesystem isn't mounted for a while after that, > as the kernel detects hardware, and sets out > resources, etc, and I'd like that to be > graphical(represented, at least) > > It's worth consideration though, if nothing else > happens... If you want a graphical dmesg, that's probably not going to be that useful. Will anyone *care* about 5 seconds of text? If you still want to cover it up, what you can do is put a splash screen up and then start a small X server ASAP (probably in /etc/rc). That's the closest you're going to get to what you want. -- Josh > > Claire > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! > Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/
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