Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:44:54 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk> To: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M P Searle) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happened to the splash screen? Message-ID: <199702051445.PAA00531@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <25973.199702051403@lupin.csv.warwick.ac.uk> from Mr M P Searle at "Feb 5, 97 02:03:37 pm"
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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.
If you define SC_SPLASH_SCREEN syscons will show the splashscreen
(a 320x200 picture containing whatever noise was in video memory)
on boot, you can then toggle between the splash and normal screen
with NumLock (a hack for now is configurable via the keymap).
There is work under way to get it finished....
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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