[gentoo-user] A couple questions related to fbsplash

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

In all my years of Gentoo I've never set up fbsplash and fbcondecor,
so I finally did so on my old laptop. It all worked, pretty easy to
set up -- however, there are 2 things I have questions about:

1) I see much of OpenRC's colorful output before the fbsplash kicks
in. Is there any trick to prevent that stuff from showing and/or
making the splash screen show up earlier?

2) With the fbsplash enabled, xdm (slim) starts in the background. I
have to alt-7 to see the graphical login screen. xdm starts at default
runlevel. With splash disabled, xdm (slim) starts in the foreground.
Why is that?

I'm using radeon/kms and gentoo-sources-3.4.0 with the livedvd-12.0 theme.

Thanks,
Paul