Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 22:16:09 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr> To: Gao Long <urgaolong@yahoo.com>, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Cc: walkyrie@meloo.com Subject: Re: dancing with the daemon Message-ID: <20040528221609.C20758@armor.freesurf.fr> In-Reply-To: <20040527110907.GA3449@dylan.home>; from stephen_roome@pepcross.com on Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:09:07PM %2B0100 References: <20040526140706.71381.qmail@web90104.mail.scd.yahoo.com> <20040527110907.GA3449@dylan.home>
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On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:09:07PM +0100, Steve Roome wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:07:06PM +0100, Gao Long wrote: > > There are still some things to do to accomplish it , it there any one who > > > > is already doing it ? Or could I get any kind of suggestions ? > > I wrote a syscons screensaver before by hacking up a new loadable module > which drew what I wanted on the screen. It's asking for trouble though, > surely this isn't stuff to put in the kernel, or even a module. > > A better approach would be to pull the damn modules out of the kernel > and have one module that hands console output (vgl perhaps) > to a userland program. > > If you can put up with a just after boot movie player then that would be > far easier and more sensible than having an in kernel movie player. > > You could have a boot splash that says "Loading Movie Player", and then > when everything is up and running go from there in userland. No keep it in the kernel for the very early boot! Look the screenshots at http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD and be sure I'll do something with your code ;) -- Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD
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