Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Bootscreen | Date | Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:17:44 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > It's perfectly possible that somebody might want to make a television > > set top box out of a standard x86 motherboard and VGA card, and not > > have anything displayed until X starts, because the television would > > not accept the standard VGA scanrate, but X can easily re-program that > > to around 15 Khz. > > OK, but in this case you would have problems with BIOS output etc.
Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of having a simple colour bar generator for when the VGA output wasn't in the valid frequency range, but your idea is better as long as the custom BIOS was easily do-able.
> And I question the approach of automatically deciding to hide startup > output from the user, in any case. I can imagine a set-top box user on the > phone to the support department saying "it gets to the Starting - Please > Wait screen, then just hangs", which would then require an engineer visit, > as opposed to, for example, "it says Obtaining IP Address... then hangs" > which would give the support techie the opportunity to tell the user to > check the ethernet cable is plugged in correctly, etc, before resorting to > sending out an engineer.
I agree, but how many set top boxes are designed like that? I would prefer verbose output, but it's generally hidden from end users :-(.
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