Re: Bootsplash doesn't work

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Schlesinger wrote:
> It *appears* to me, that DragonFly switches for a split of a second into 
> graphic mode (a ultra-short flickering on the screen), but then switches back 
> to text output.

No, the flickering is probably due to VESA initialization or the VGA 
adapter loading a font.

I think the problem with the splash is that the decoders for the splash 
image (splash_{bmp,pcx}.ko) are not yet initialized when the splash is 
supposed to open. The splash is supposed to open when scinit() is called 
the first time from init386() (machdep.c) via cninit(). The 
splash_init() call in scinit() (syscons.c) then fails because the 
splash_{bmp,pcx}.ko hasn't been initialized yet.

Someone (I think it was Emiel Kollof) told me that the splash stopped 
working when the loader from FreeBSD 5 was imported.

I've looked into this several times and always ended up being frustrated.

Sascha

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