i would really like to thanks all the great helps the gentoo society gave me. thanks to all the nice people, i finally get the bootsplash working. let me just list mistakes i had made, so that next person may save some time.
1. i enabled both vesa and radeon console driver in kernel configuration, since radeon driver seems slightly faster than vesa when playing movies on framebuffer. however, this caused problem. if i disable radeon driver and leave only vesa driver, bootsplash would work. 2. kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 is already patched, no need to apply the patch. 3. bootsplash kernel module does not take initrd as a filesystem image, so error message will appear in dmesg saying that 'RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0' any way. and initrd file generated by /sbin/splash is not a valid image. so don't waste time on that like i did. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
