As a Linux noob, I really want to learn as much as I can, but I also want to sell my friends on it, so I need the graphical splash screen.
Originally when I installed 11, the splash screen was there, but GRUB was configured wrong by the installer and I had to change the Menu.1st entries. Since then, no splash screen. I do have the parameters vga=791 and splash=silent set. Changing the value for “vga=” will successfully change the video mode during startup.
So I guess I’m getting the splash screen, but it’s verbose instead of silent, and it’s black instead of the green suse loader bar image.
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> As a Linux noob, I really want to learn as much as I can, but I also
> want to sell my friends on it, so I need the graphical splash screen.
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I find this amazing… so basically… you’re saying that for something to be
“sell-able”… to be “cool” and “hip” and “the in thing”… it HAS to have a
splash screen?!?
Pretty good indicator of what the world’s becoming lately. If it ain’t
shiny, it ain’t worth anything.
Granted, explains the gigantic explosion of flashy lights and bling on the
new systems nowadays too… Hey! Let’s build green machines, save energy…
and then hook 250 Watts of useless blinky blinky to it… If it changed
according to the cpu load, system temperature or something, it might be
useful… but just to glow?!?
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:56:01 GMT
> jfeaz <jfeaz@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > As a Linux noob, I really want to learn as much as I can, but I also
> > want to sell my friends on it, so I need the graphical splash screen.
> >
>
> I find this amazing… so basically… you’re saying that for something to
> be “sell-able”… to be “cool” and “hip” and “the in thing”… it HAS to
> have a splash screen?!?
>
> Pretty good indicator of what the world’s becoming lately. If it ain’t
> shiny, it ain’t worth anything.
>
> Granted, explains the gigantic explosion of flashy lights and bling on the
> new systems nowadays too… Hey! Let’s build green machines, save energy…
> and then hook 250 Watts of useless blinky blinky to it… If it changed
> according to the cpu load, system temperature or something, it might be
> useful… but just to glow?!?
>
> Amazing.
>
> Loni
>
I apologize for that… having a bad day.
I’ll be under the couch over there if anyone doesn’t need me…
This is my third time trying to adopt Linux, and it finally stuck. Sorry to say that usually the roadblock has to do with community members spitting on the expectations end users have for modern computing (yes, expectations built by Windows). Sometimes I run across threads where people get flamed just for wanting to use a GUI at all.
I know it sounds obnoxious to “expect” Linux environments to work just like we’re used to with Windows, but some people are not computer people and never will be. They just want to turn on the machine, get their non-computer-related work done, and go home. They don’t want to know what’s going on in the background, and why should they? We don’t care about the technical aspects of their careers either.
If we want to “market” a new product, we have to meet them half way (at least).
I would like to get to the point where I can actually talk someone into adopting Linux AND effectively support it for them, but those people will be helpless non-computer people 99% of the time.
Thanks for your reply. I already have this line in Menu.1st, and if I’m not mistaken, this is a reference to the graphical boot menu, not the splash screen. I tried taking it away and got a plain-text GRUB menu.
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
In your Menu.1st, is that line under your Linux option, or at the top under the general parameters?
Then why should they be using Linux at all, given the bother of removing the pre-installed Windoze (which they’d apparently be perfectly happy with), and installing a Linux that’s been cr*pped up to look & act just like the Windoze they replaced?
I’m sorry, but I want Linux to look and act like Linux. I AM a computer professional, and that’s what I need to get my work done. If I could do things effectively in Windoze, I could save quite a bit of time by just using it.
The YaST2 sysconfig editor shows the theme setting to be openSUSE, which is the only theme installed in /etc/bootsplash/themes/, and also the one I want to use.
In following the directions in the article, I noticed that I don’t have a file called /etc/sysconfig/themes. It’s just not there. Could that be related to the problem? This is the step that calls for it, under “Changing SuSE Splash Screen”.
* optional step (edit /etc/sysconfig/themes and check the line):
are you running on a laptop cause the only reason im asking is on my laptop i don’t have the boot splash either but i just have messed with it to see why i guess i should then i might be able to help out more
ok check this /etc/bootsplash/themes/openSUSE
is in there
then check /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash
open that file with your fav text editor then scroll down to the bottom and see if THEME=“openSUSE” is there
I apologize if what I asked came across as flaming. I meant it as a simple question, and a bit of explanation as to why I was asking the question. None of the posts or links give me an answer, so may I please ask again?
How do I not have a splash screen at all? I have “splash=silent” in /boot/grub/menu.lst, but still get the splash screen, not the trace of the boot process, which is what I want to see.
Second question: it also has a splash screen at shutdown. How do I not have this, so I can see what the machine is actually doing?
I’ll probably have a lot more questions along these lines, which are easily summed up as (if it’s not flaming) “How do I make OpenSuse (or whatever distro) behave the way Linux/unix/X11 has always behaved?”
After a little digging, I found splash=0 works. I didn’t find anything about splash screens in yast, but just editing /boot/grub/menu.lst does the job.
