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Same here. I tried to link into opt/ again...nothing. Created a dir called medie in opt/, moved the vid there and linked into /opt/media...voilà.
Does this make any sense? No. But this way my root is clean again. (weel except for the link, but that really doesn't take up much space).

This is just an unneeded hassle. You can simply enter absolute path to the file in config and it will work. Something like this:
("#" is a comment).

i tried that too, because it seems so obvious, but does not work.

can i use this boot video also as shutdown video? if yes what exactly do i type in xterminal?

thanks.

Not sure, try this topic:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=14310

I am not sure if this has already been answered before, but make sure your video is owned by root ("chown root video_name.avi"). That did it for me. Then you can just put it in /opt and set the absolute path in default.conf to it, just as wolf said.

Big Thx ! Well done.

Hi!


First of all, thanks for the clear guide of how to change the boot video. I did it by referring directly to my new boot video (stored in in /opt/bootmedia) in the default.conf, works perfectly. I did first make sure that my boot video was owned by root (checked using 'ls -l).

I do believe I found a small error in your commands to revert to the standard boot video:

I think "/etc/hildon-welcom.d" should be "/etc/hildon-welcome.d" there?

I also found out (by accident) that any .conf in the /etc/hildon-welcome.d directory is parsed during startup. I first created a default.conf_bckp file before changing anything, and then I noticed that both my new boot video (now in default.conf) and the original video (referred to in the backed up .conf) were shown during startup of my N900... Not that it's of any use but I thought I'd share it with you guys

Once again thanks a lot, nice work!

EDIT: the multiple .conf files "trick" was already documented in some threads, hadn't seen them yet, sorry!

PLEASE! I cannot seem to understand how to copy the OP as far as the code is concerned. I am a complete linux noob and i dont know what i am doing but i am definitely willing to try and experiment risky things as long as instructions are clear.

I have gone to sudo gainroot already but i am confused as to what i am supposed to put afterwards. I mean i see the code that is posted here however is that really what goes after the

/home/user #???

is that supposed to be there by default? sorry for the sillyness and if anyone wants to you can go ahead and just pm me to see how i am suppose to do this so i don't ruin this thread =l.

MASTER

Yeah, after using sudo gainroot it goes to /home/user by default.