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Alicia Asín wrote:

Hi!

I'm working with Fedora Core 4 and I'd like to know if it's there any way for using bootsplash with it. I know fedora uses rhgb for bootsplash but, is that the only way? Because rhgb starts X and I'd prefer some ligther as bootsplash... In case the only way is using rhgb, how can I change splash images? Just changing the files in /usr/share/rhgb by hand? Any special format, size or resolution for them?

Thanks, Alicia.

I had struggled for a long time to get either Bootsplash or the newer FBSplash to work with Fedora distributions, ever since Fedora Core 1. I was only successful with Core 1 using a 2.4 kernel, and for a short period of time, at that. I remember having trouble getting the userspace tools to work correctly and for some reason the theme's paths were not being seen some times (I actually had a /usr/share/bootsplash/default theme which was actually symlink to several other themes, and a script executed in init 6 or 0, would change that to a different directory [other than default, of course]).

As you point out, fbsplash or bootsplash would be lighter than a whole X session, and they also allow the use of pixmaps, animations and whatnot to be used directly on VC1.