Grub And Boot Splash Screen Strangeness On Acer Laptop

For some reason the grub splash and boot splash screens do not appear on my laptop (except for text). However if i plug in an external monitor then boot up, the splash screens appear on both my laptop LCD panel and on the external CRT. Is there a way to get the boot splash screens on my laptop LCD panel? I had this problem with Kubuntu, and was able to manually change the grub.lst menu with the option "video=radeonfb" as well as listing it in the /etc/modules script. However i cannot find the /etc/modules file in SuSE 10.1. I have an Acer 5502 14.1 widescreen (1280x800) ATI Mobility x700.

In YaST, open the /etc/sysconfig editor, in the kernel section add radeonfb to the INITRD_MODULES field, save and exit. If you're using a RC version of 10.1 be careful, as this my corrupt the initrd file. With release versions it shouldn't be a problem though. ~Loki

I tried adding radeonfb to the /etc/sysconfig in Yast. But this did not work. Thanks for your suggestion though. Perhaps I need to edit the grub.lst file from yast? Maybe change the vga mode = text and add an extra comment of video=radeonfb?

same problem here
I have an Acer Travelmate 3210 laptop. There's no boot splash neither.
But I have got grub splash here.

Yes strange isn't it. It's mainly a cosmetic problem but i would like a nice graphical bootup screen. Style counts! Here is my entry from /boot/grub/menu.lst

[i ]title SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=771 resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

the VGA is set to 771 which is 800x600, 8 bits. When i switch to other modes I get a sync error at startup. However, I get the grub bootsplash when plugged into an external monitor... on both screens??

Ok, here's my solution:
1) add vga=791 to boot parameters
2) run mkinitrd as root

Reboot and the bootsplash shows up.

It is a pity that bootsplash does not support 1280x800 resolution, though.

Ok, here's my solution:
1) add vga=791 to boot parameters
2) run mkinitrd as root

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Great thanks, how do I do nubmer 2? run mkintrd as root? Is that a command line or a line in a script I edit. Sorry for the newb question :>).

It is a command.
You can run it in a terminal:
su
(root password)
mkinitrd

Great! It worked! Thanks a bunch. You are awesome. Now, if I could only get the pretty grub bootsplash screen to work....

Here is my menu.lst entry

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message