Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263107AbUAISlh (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:41:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263173AbUAISlh (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:41:37 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:34221 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263107AbUAISj7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:39:59 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: Make the init-process look like the StarWars Credits Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 19:39:56 +0100 Message-ID: References: <3FFEDD1D.7000003@ippensen.de> <200401091218.12671.rpc@cafe4111.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aFsl/TgNf3Wwd7tc7gklX1Md/WQ= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1649 Lines: 41 Rob Couto writes: > 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. I suppose it would be possible to use 3D features of the graphics chip. It would require a rather massive hacking in the fb driver, of course. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@kth.se - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/