From: Rob Couto <rpc@cafe4111.org>
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Subject: Re: Make the init-process look like the StarWars Credits
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:18:12 -0500
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On Friday 09 January 2004 11:55, Niels Ippensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to make the boot-process look
> StarWars-like:
>
>
>    		lalallaal
>   	llalalallalalalalalalalalala
> lalalalalalalaalallalalalalalalalallala
>
> and let it scroll up the screen. I would think that this could be done
> with the Framebuffer-Device. Maybe something like fblogo or so.
>
> Thanks,
> Niels


if your processor is so fast that it gets bored waiting for your disk, that 
could be cool ;)

http://www.bootsplash.org has the utils for full-screen fb logo and other 
stuff, i.e. fbmngplay and fbtruetype, playback mng anims and drop text in any 
size/color/position on the screen in a TrueType font. mix that together with 
some nice bilinear filtering and you'd have the beginning of a jaw-dropping 
misuse of CPU :)

so in other words, without examining the practicality, yes. the fb can do that 
if the kernel console that gets rendered to the fb can be piped thru a gimpy 
pre-processor. sounds like fun. maybe one could even borrow the code from the 
starwars XScreenSaver to do the pretty rendering, since it already takes 
plaintext input.

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