Alright, those commands just killed my splash screen and all I see is boot messages at 1024 x 768, but it’s ok. I think it looks pretty cool 
None of those commands worked for me. I just installed openSUSE 11 and bootsplash is the only problem I have. I have spent most of the day trying to find out why bootsplash isn’t working. I have searched through the forum and not one of the posts has helped me. Any other ideas?
Running NVIDIA 8500GTx2, Twinview, openSUSE 11.0
Many people are having problems because other people are suggesting they pick 24-bit modes when editing menu.lst. Bootsplash does not yet provide support for 24-bit colour depth modes:
Therefore, all you need to do is pick a 16-bit mode that is compatible with your system (find out which modes are available: sudo hwinfo --framebuffer)
Roddy