Re: [Pcbsd-developer] animated bootup screen

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So the point is still the same :) This would have to be developed and 
submitted to FreeBSD guys. Anybody want to do it? :P

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Andrei Kolu wrote:
> 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
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