Boot Splash (background pic ala SuSE) support #2

[cpwins]

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Regards,
BonezTheGoon]

I'm having the same problem as lfc.messiah above. This 60 Hz is terrible! Now I've seen many examples on how to set the vesa mode to 70 Hz in Grub, but how can I do this with LILO?

What I tried is this:

[quink]

Okay i read this whole post and all i could get my hands on, and maybe its me or whatever but i can't figure out a few things
First off I do get a bootsplash image and that works perfectly fine
But
Its only @ 60hz. I tried doing the video=vesa:mtrr:1024x768@85 with no luck.
I did many variants too. I did
video=vesa:mtrr:1024x768@**
**=I tried all ranges from 70-85 at 5 hz increments but all boots put me at 60hz.
I also tried the same thing but without the mtrr

Now i think it looks great, but my eyes are melting out of my head, and i don't much like that.

Now my system info is...I use grub, Geforce 3 ti200 graphics, and i think thats all that matters?

But to repeat, it does work for me, the refresh just sucks.

[cpwins]

I have exactly the same problem as you quink. Even though I specify video=vesa:mtrr:1024x768@70, the console is still at 60 Hz (the OSD of my monitor tells me). But when I execute fbset from the bash prompt I get the following: