> I have seen the boot spash work flawlessly on several other machines - > but I think most of them ended up using VESA once the app_server > loaded anyway, and I wasn't sure if that mattered. > > Does the boot splash always use VESA because the accelerated driver > hasn't loaded yet? Boot splash always uses VESA, yes, can't rely on graphics driver until the accelerant (and consequently the app_server) is started. On my radeon it works btw, albeit with some other occasional glitches, but those happened before the new boot splash anyways. Regards, Rene