Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/10/4 Bean <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Stefan Bienert
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Bean wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Stefan Bienert
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Peter Cros wrote:
>>>>> There is a grub.efi binary with the double buffering fix and menutest  
>>>>> from
>>>>> Bean here on Ubuntuforms.org apple mac subforum thread
>>>>>
>>>>> grub2 EFI boot loader internal/external booting post #1054
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8034856&postcount=1054
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> OK, I tried that, but only with little success.
>>>> I get a very distorted screen on boot. And iThis seems not to depend on
>>>> whether I pull in the 'menu' stuff mentiod in the ubuntuforum thread or
>>>> not. But at least the system stays in a bootable state and I get a sort
>>>> of graphical term ;-)
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What's your video card, intel or nvidia ?
>>>
>>
>> Nvidia.
>
> Hi,
>
> I found a small bug that could be the cause, please try the latest
> code from menu branch. I also upload the binary file to ubuntu forum
> in case you don't want to compile it yourself.
>

For me gfxterm works on an iMac with Radeon X1600 card but I am not
sure what exact version I was running.

I forgot to load a font so the terminal only displayed question marks
at about 1cps but it certainly did display something.

It says grub 1.97~beta3 but that is somewhat imprecise in this case.

Thanks

Michal