From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HmVsX-00041k-U6 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:13:53 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HmVsV-0003zY-Ug for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:13:52 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HmVsU-0003wY-1r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:13:51 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HmVsT-0003wG-Rj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:13:49 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HmVl2-0004aZ-PE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:06:08 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=aragorn) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HmVl0-0004mM-Do; Fri, 11 May 2007 16:06:07 +0200 Received: from rmh by aragorn with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HmVmR-00016J-1R; Fri, 11 May 2007 16:07:35 +0200 Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:07:35 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: grub-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <20070511140734.GD3625@aragorn> References: <20070511155339.85f69598.jonny@csc.jp> <87ps578rug.fsf@lab.ossystems.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ps578rug.fsf@lab.ossystems.com.br> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Microsoft discourages use of Outlook. X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: 422794@bugs.debian.org, Jonny , Otavio Salvador , 422794-forwarded@bugs.debian.org Subject: gfxterm and vesa X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 14:13:52 -0000 On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:31:03AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Jonny writes: > > > Robert Millan write: > > > >> Can you try 800x600x32 and 640x480x8 ? > > > > Since my machine is't supporting a 32-bit color, 800x600x32 can't be used. If > > it's 800x600x24, it works well. > > Ah nice. Robert, I think we might reduce the color depth used by > default. We might even use 16 instead of 24 IMHO. What do you think? Not sure.. does 16 work on all machines? What about old PCs that don't support VESA at all? I think we should have some way to probe all this stuff before enabling gfxterm. The X people use discover and xresprobe. Perhaps we could do that too? As short term, if you think 640x480x16 is a reasonable default, we could set that. But since this part of code belongs to upstream, I'd like to see if they have some comments about it (forwarding). GRUB maintainers (specialy daChaac), do you have any comments on this? -- Robert Millan My spam trap is honeypot@aybabtu.com. Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.