On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 13:42 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
If you want the shiny graphical startup, typically all you need to do is add something like: vga=0x318 to the boot commandline and you'll get the graphical version (at 1024x768) instead. Try 'vga=ask' to get a menu that will let you pick a mode; once you find one that works for your system you can use that.
Note that this is only a very temporary way to get the shiny bits right now and not the long-term answer. DRM modesetting to land soon[1]...
Jeremy
[1] I hope :-)