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>Index: x.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /usr/cvs/doc/FAQ/x.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.8
>diff -u -r1.8 x.sgml
>--- x.sgml 1999/04/10 00:03:58 1.8
>+++ x.sgml 1999/07/15 03:20:51
>@@ -368,5 +368,91 @@
> Run the command <tt/ xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"/ from your .xinitrc or .xsession.
> 
> </sect1>
>+
>+ <sect1>
>+ <heading>How do I install a splash screen and where do I find them?
>+ </heading>
>+
>+ Just prior to the release of FreeBSD 3.1, a new feature was
>+ added to allow the display of &quot;splash&quot; screens during
>+ the boot messages. The splash screens currently must be a 256
>+ color bitmap (<tt>*.BMP</tt>) or ZSoft PCX
>+ (<tt>*.PCX</tt>) file. In addition, they must have a
>+ resolution of 320x200 or less to work on standard VGA adapters.
>+ If you compile VESA support into your kernel, then you can use
>+ larger bitmaps up to 1024x768. Note that VESA support requires
>+ the <tt>VM86</tt> kernel option to be compiled into the
>+ kernel. The actual VESA support can either be compiled directly
>+ into the kernel with the <tt>VESA</tt> kernel config option
>+ or by loading the VESA kld module during bootup.
>+
>+ To use a splash screen, you need to modify the startup files
>+ that control the boot process for FreeBSD. The files for this
>+ changed prior to the release of FreeBSD 3.2, so there are now
>+ two ways of loading a splash screen:
>+ 
>+ <itemize>
>+ <item>FreeBSD 3.1
>+
>+ The first step is to find a bitmap version of your splash
>+ screen. Release 3.1 only supports Windows bitmap splash
>+ screens. Once you've found your splash screen of choice
>+ copy it to <tt>/boot/splash.bmp</tt>. Next, you need to
>+ have a <tt>/boot/loader.rc</tt> file that contains the
>+ following lines:
>+
>+ <verb>
>+ load kernel
>+ load -t splash_image_data /boot/splash.bmp
>+ load splash_bmp
>+ autoboot
>+ </verb>
>+ </item>
>+
>+ <item>FreeBSD 3.2+
>+
>+ In addition to adding support for PCX splash screens,
>+ FreeBSD 3.2 includes a nicer way of configuring the boot
>+ process. If you wish, you can use the method listed above
>+ for FreeBSD 3.1. If you do and you want to use PCX, replace
>+ <tt>splash_bmp</tt> with <tt>splash_pcx</tt>. If,
>+ on the other hand, you want to use the newer boot
>+ configuration, you need to create a
>+ <tt>/boot/loader.rc</tt> file that contains the
>+ following lines:
>+
>+ <verb>
>+ include /boot/loader.4th
>+ start
>+ </verb>
>+
>+ and a <tt>/boot/loader.conf</tt> that contains the
>+ following:
>+
>+ <verb>
>+ splash_bmp_load="YES"
>+ bitmap_load="YES"
>+ </verb>
>+ 
>+ This assumes you are using <tt>/boot/splash.bmp</tt>
>+ for your splash screen. If you'd rather use a PCX file,
>+ copy it to <tt>/boot/splash.pcx</tt>, create a
>+ <tt>/boot/loader.rc</tt> as instructed above, and
>+ create a <tt>/boot/loader.conf</tt> that contains:
>+
>+ <verb>
>+ splash_pcx_load="YES"
>+ bitmap_load="YES"
>+ bitmap_name="/boot/splash.pcx"
>+ </verb>
>+ </item>
>+ </itemize>
>+
>+ Now all you need is a splash screen. For that you can surf
>+ on over to the gallery at <htmlurl
>+ url="http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/splash/"
>+ name="http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/splash/">.
>+
>+ </sect1>
> </sect>

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