Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: Make the init-process look like the StarWars Credits | Date | Fri, 09 Jan 2004 19:39:56 +0100 |
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Rob Couto <rpc@cafe4111.org> 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.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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