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

