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Re: setvbe command to set video mode
From: |
Vesa Jääskeläinen |
Subject: |
Re: setvbe command to set video mode |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:50:54 +0300 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) |
Gerardo Richarte wrote:
> I have implemented a new grub command (setvbe) which can be used to
> switch the graphics mode before booting. It can take arguments like
>
> setvbe 1024x768x32 (scans the video modes for a suitable one) (*)
> setvbe 0x118 (set mode 0x118)
>
> (*) it does not use the video mode list as used by vbeprobe because this
> method doesn't work on some systems, specially on qemu.
Have you tested this latest fixes in CVS?... I back ported quite a while
ago some structure fixes to grub legacy that could be related.
I just tried out qemu with grub 2 and it's similar functionality and it
shows quite nicely information what was expected.