How do I get rid of the ugly progress bar (of plymouth)?

[sideways]

use vga=ask to get a list of supported vesa modes, including widescreen ones

[TheIcebreaker]

I also figured that would work but It doesnt give any options for widescreen resolutions.
Do i have to get an updated or patched vesa fb driver.

[sideways]

I also figured that would work but It doesnt give any options for widescreen resolutions.
Do i have to get an updated or patched vesa fb driver.

Probably not a supported mode then.
You can try vbetest, to make sure, run as root in a console window. it will list supported vesa modes. you need to add 512 to the mode number for the vga= parameter in grub.conf. eg On my 1280x800 laptop I get

[root@localhost ~]# vbetest
VBE Version 3.0
NVIDIA
[256] 640x400 (256 color palette)
[257] 640x480 (256 color palette)
[259] 800x600 (256 color palette)
[261] 1024x768 (256 color palette)
[270] 320x200 (5:6:5)
[271] 320x200 (8:8:8)
[273] 640x480 (5:6:5)
[274] 640x480 (8:8:8)
[276] 800x600 (5:6:5)
[277] 800x600 (8:8:8)
[279] 1024x768 (5:6:5)
[280] 1024x768 (8:8:8)
[304] 320x200 (256 color palette)
[305] 320x400 (256 color palette)
[306] 320x400 (5:6:5)
[307] 320x400 (8:8:8)
[308] 320x240 (256 color palette)
[309] 320x240 (5:6:5)
[310] 320x240 (8:8:8)
[317] 640x400 (5:6:5)
[318] 640x400 (8:8:8)
[352] 1280x800 (256 color palette)
[353] 1280x800 (8:8:8)
[354] 768x480 (256 color palette)
Type a mode number, or 'q' to quit -

mode 353 is 24bit widescreen so I set vga=865 (353+512). Not all widescreen modes are supported.

[Trapper]

You can try vbetest, to make sure, run as root in a console window. it will list supported vesa modes. You need to add 512 to the mode number for the vga= parameter in grub.conf.

You may need to go through a few hoops to get vbetest working. Here's what I had to do:
(all as root)

yum install vbetest

Because of the way SELinux is acting for me I had to do this in a console window to get results:

chcon -t unconfined_execmem_exec_t '/usr/sbin/vbetest'

setsebool -P allow_unconfined_mmap_low 1

vbtest

[TheIcebreaker]

Well I tried that and it does not list any of the widescreen modes.
The question now is can I do anything about it.

[sideways]

Well I tried that and it does not list any of the widescreen modes.
The question now is can I do anything about it.

Not easily. You could try another framebuffer driver, intelfb, nvidiafb, radeonfb etc. They're compiled as modules in fedora (not into the kernel itself), you can check with

grep FB_INTEL /boot/config-$(uname -r)

or grep for FB_NVIDIA, FB_RADEON etc. it'll probably say '=m', whereas CONFIG_FB_VESA=y, the m means module the y means compiled in.

In that case you'll need to recreate the initrd including the relevant framebuffer driver, seee 'man mkinitrd' specifically the --with option), then instead of 'vga=' you use something like 'video=intelfb:mode=1024x768-32@60'

It may not help with the widescreen modes, and in some cases may interfere with the Xorg Driver (nvidiafb is known to have some issues here)