Bug 217985

Summary: Handbook update to 12.3. Configuring Boot Time Splash Screens chapter
Product: Documentation Reporter: joeb1
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: carlavilla
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description joeb1 2017-03-21 21:05:55 UTC 
You can remove this from the chapter because it's now loaded by default. A message is issued during the boot process if vesa_load="YES" is in loader.conf.

Remove the following.

To use larger images that fill the whole display screen, up to the maximum resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels, the VESA module must also be loaded during system boot. If using a custom kernel, ensure that the custom kernel configuration file includes the VESA kernel configuration option. To load the VESA module for the splash screen, add this line to /boot/loader.conf before the three lines mentioned in the above examples:

vesa_load="YES"
Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-01-25 18:42:53 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: carlavilla
Date: Sat Jan 25 18:42:34 UTC 2020
New revision: 53816
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53816

Log:
  VESA_LOAD is loaded by default in the FreeBSD kernel so
  we can remove this advice from our handbook

  PR:		217985
  Submitted by:	joeb1@a1poweruser.com
  Patch by: 	carlavilla@
  Approved by:	bcr@(mentor)
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23359

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.xml
Comment 2 Sergio Carlavilla Delgado freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-01-25 19:13:07 UTC 
Fixed.