splash screen on amd64?

[Greg Mars]

I could never get this to work either and was wondering if I was doing
something wrong. Thanks for clearing that up.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Omer Faruk Sen <omerfsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Than is there a possibility that we can use to see picture on bootup
> (kernel) without using splash (another driver ..) ?
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Pieter de Goeje <pieter at degoeje.nl>
> wrote:
>
> > On Monday 24 March 2008, Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is there a way to use splash screen on amd64 machines? Since whatever
> I
> > do
> > > it was not possible with 6.3-RELEASE amd64.
> >
> > I believe you need i386 FreeBSD to do that, because "options VESA",
> which
> > splash(4) relies on, isn't supported by FreeBSD amd64.
> >
> > --
> > Pieter de Goeje
> >
> >
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