No Bootsplash Screen

hello,
Just installed opensuse 10.3 and am really liking it. The one thing that I would is to get is the boot splash screen to work. After the initial boot splash picture I then go into text mode showing the boot process. I've tried several vga= settings but it always says on reboot "invalid code " and then boots in text mode. When I try vga=ask it says VESA VGA and only gives text options to boot from. The machine is an old dell l1000r w/i810 integrated chip. I had ubuntu 7.10 installed previously and was getting bootsplash screen fine w/that distro. Anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this. I've googled and searched this forum but dont see any relevent results.thanx in advance.....

As root, from the console prompt, enter yast2. Arrow down to System. Arrow right, then down to Boot Loader.

Edit the default setting. If it isn't already there, put in vga=0x31a to test the waters.

If that entry works you will have a green screen with a small load bar, or possibly a winter screen, but not the load listing.

If the entry says vga=normal when you first edit, that is the cause of the listing, but the font is large.

If the listing font is small there will be a different problem.

Myself, I always hit the Esc key to get that listing when I boot; my idiosyncrasy.

Further to what jbb@vcn.com said, in the grub file located at /boot.grub/menu.lst, you will find an entry something like this:

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.3
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6L160P0_L30VFB7H-part9 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/sda7 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default[/b]

You can look at the menu safely with this command in a console:

sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst[/b]

The point I make now is that this fragment: splash=silent must be there for you to see the graphical grub screen. So execute sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst and check it out.

Swerdna

thanx guys for replying. sorry I wasnt faster in getting back to you. First I have tried using vga=0x31a and several other codes. When i goto reboot After menu screen I get a "Invalid Code" message and a choice of text mode sizes(80x40 etc...). I have also tried vga=ask and I get same text options. As for my /boot/grup/menu.lst kernel parameters here is my entry:
sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed May 14 10:48:09 EDT 2008
default 0
timeout 6
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message
##YaST - activate


###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.17-0.1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600JB-00_WD-WMANM2427772-part1 resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default

I've got to admit defeat here. That's substantially the same as mine (except for different partitions).

Swerdna

I've been doing some reading . I notice when i issue command: hwinfo --framebuffer | grep 'Mode ' I get nothing in response. is there some way I need to enable frame buffer. I see a package titled Framebuffer (2006). I do have package DirectFramebuffer installed. Any ideas about if this would solve problem? Also do you have the gfxmenu entry enabled. One post I saw said to comment it out.I dont want to mess around w/framebuffer w/o knowing what I'm doing....

These are the packages I have that relate to the search fragment "amebuf" with all five search options checkrd:
DirectFB, fbset, SDL and splashy

??
Swerdna