delay swith to runlevel 5?

[brokndodge]

I am running Debian Etch on an older PIII. I have recently upgraded the kernal to 2.6.15. During the upgrade I added the BootSplash patch and now have BootSplash up and working great. Ran into a few problems but thankfully someone set up a homeunix site and posted their rc and rcS files. would be happy to share those if any one wants them.

Now to my question:
Is it possible to delay switching to runlevel 5 until after X11 and GDM are finished loading? If so, how do I do it?

I now have this beautiful bootsplash screen but when x11 starts i have to look at this ugly blank grey screen until GDM gets loaded. I think it would be nice for my splash screen to stay up a little longer.

[engineuity]

I dont think the issue is the runlevel. Any time you start/restart gdm, it blacks the screen until gdm is loaded. If you look in your rc2.d through rc5.d, you will see S99gdm in all of them. I think these determine which scripts are run at which runlevel. rc0 is the "halt" runlevel, shutting the system down and rc1 is the single user runlevel. You may have the runlevels confused. The only way I can think of you having your bootsplash stay up longer is to write your own script that has a wait command before you call on gdm. Even then though, you will still suffer from the ugly blank screen, since this is part of the gdm startup process...unless you want to dive into the gdm code and make it beautiful for everyone else