Re: [Pcbsd-developer] animated bootup screen

[Andrei K. <an...@bs...>]

On Thursday 24 August 2006 5:41 pm, you wrote:
> There we go :) The original poster was talking about the type of splash
> screen you see in SuSE or RH, not FreeBSD's native version. Something
> that lets you display a nice screen, with bootup information scrolling
> in middle of it, along with maybe a progress bar. As far as I can tell,
> FreeBSD doesn't have support for this yet. Somebody would have to port
> it over or write it in. Right now the FBSD screensaver just covers the
> entire startup output, and isn't animated in any way.
Correction again: you are talking about bootscreen not screensaver like red 
devil raiding console when idle. This animated "application" that is loaded 
before kernel can read konsole messages and show appropriate info on screen 
in graphical mode. I already read underlying code and developers says that 
unfortunately this is not supported right now but may be changed in future- 
and future is WE. We need some devel to work this out and submit code to main 
FreeBSD tree.

andrei