Hi i want to know how to install this bootsplsh theme...and i would like a detailed explanation kuz i am a newb lol....so can anyone tell me how to get this theme to work

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=26495

that is the theme i want to install

http://www.mail-archive.com/hints@li.../msg00068.html

Found it in the comments in the link you gave...

yes..okay that is sort of hard to follow.....and hard to do.....does anyone if there is a graphical way to do this???

I doubt it... If you want a graphical way of doing things go back to Windows.

aight well then...could you explain to me how to patch the kernel?....


Required Packages:
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The bootsplash kernel patch:
http://www.bootsplash.de/files/ (for kernel 2.6 patches)
or:
http://www.bootsplash.de/files/old (for kernel 2.4 patches)

The bootsplash package:
http://www.bootsplash.de/files/splas...sh-3.2.tar.bz2

A patch for bootsplash's makefile:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hint...makefile.patch

A theme:
http://www.bootsplash.de/files/themes/

If you don't have your kernel's sources, get them from:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/


Patching, configuring and recompiling the kernel:
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If you just downloaded the kernel sources, unpack them in the right place by
running the following commands:
cd /usr/src/
tar -xvjf /path/to/kernel-tarball



i cant figure out how to do this first patch...the file that i downloaded is .diff
the first patch is the bootsplash kernel patch..and i cant figure out how to unpack the diff file...

go to bootsplash home page for instructions on how to patch the kernel source

Holy crap... when I loaded bootsplash screens from kde-look I never touched the kernel... no idea why the hell you would have to do that. All you really should have to do is unpack the theme, move it to the directory and set bootsplash paths from the KDE config manager/Sax2 with SuSE. No patching of a kernel, no nothing fancy.

Do a google search for a program called kbootsplash. If I recall, there are some pre-made suse pacakges for it. If not, just compile from source.

this may help: specifically for SuSE
http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikk...tSplashScreens

Thanks broch, that is exactly what I was talking about, no need to recompile your kernel, nothing really that difficult involved.