srg86 wrote:It worked! And X.org worked a treat too! (this was booting the live CD)
Great. If, in the future, you have an installed copy with 'splash' set and would like to make the change permanent (rather than editing it every time), you can do the following:
* Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (you'll need to use sudo or root to edit this file: e.g. sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst)
* Find the following part:
## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash
Remove splash (so the line just looks like # defoptions=quiet).
* Then run update-grub (you'll also need sudo/root for this: e.g. sudo update-grub).
srg86 wrote:The only thing that was curiouse was that the volume controls were all turned down, I definatly hope that doesn't happen every boot on a proper installation, I remember trying Mandriva 10 or something with this sound card and it would turn it down after every boot, but other than that, everything worked perfectly!
I'm not sure about the LiveCD, but with an install, typically the mixer setting start off turned down all the way the first time, and on each boot then get restored from their previous settings (so hopefully where ever you left them).
srg86 wrote:I wonder why the boot splash doesn't like my graphics card?
Who knows... kinda strange it works in 32-bit but not 64-bit. But I imagine getting bootsplash working perfectly isn't that high of a development priority (relatively speaking), since you can just boot up in text mode if it doesn't work. FWIW, some other people on TR have had that exact same problem (
here's one prior thread).