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From: Teresa e Junior <teresaejunior@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: LiveCD bootloader
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:00:20 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100908200020.676f739a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8813AB.4070206@gmail.com>

On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:52:27 +0200
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/09/10 00:47, Teresa e Junior wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:54:25 +0930
> > Brendan Trotter<btrotter@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Brendan Trotter<btrotter@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>      
> >>> GRUB and Linux use "video mode numbers" to request a video mode.
> >>> These video mode numbers can be different for different video
> >>> cards. Early versions of VBE did define some standard mode
> >>> numbers, but these became obsolete in VBE version 2.0 (back in
> >>> 1994). Software written after 1994 shouldn't rely on these
> >>> obsolete video mode numbers. For example, if you're lucky mode
> >>> 0x118 might be 1024*768 with 24-BPP, but nothing guarantees that
> >>> anymore, and it could easily be any other video mode. There's
> >>> also no guarantee that the the video card supports the video mode
> >>> (e.g. a lot of video cards only support 32-BPP video modes and
> >>> don't support any 24-BPP video modes; and some only support
> >>> 24-BPP video modes and not 32-BPP video modes; and the same is
> >>> true for 15-BPP vs. 16-BPP). 
> >> My apologies.
> >>
> >> It seems GRUB2 has improved a lot, and doesn't rely on the obsolete
> >> "standard video mode numbers" anymore. Except for problems caused
> >> by video modes that are supported by the video card but not
> >> supported by the monitor; it's mostly only a problem with Linux
> >> itself now.
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Brendan
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Grub-devel mailing list
> >> Grub-devel@gnu.org
> >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
> >>      
> > Thanks! We have to set 640x480 as default anyway...
> >
> >    
> You can specify multiple comma-separated possibilities in order of 
> priorities
> > _______________________________________________
> > Grub-devel mailing list
> > Grub-devel@gnu.org
> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
> >
> >    
> 
> 

Hello, Vladimir!

What do you mean with that? Let us suppose, I set:

GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x800,1024x768,640x480

and if the hardware supports the first, it will use the first, and so
forth?

Thank you!
Teresa e Junior


  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-08 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-08  2:42 LiveCD bootloader Teresa e Junior
2010-09-08  5:09 ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-08  5:24   ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-08  8:34     ` Robert Millan
2010-09-08 22:47     ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-08 22:52       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 23:00         ` Teresa e Junior [this message]
2010-09-08 23:29           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 23:46             ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-09  1:33           ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-09  6:51             ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08  8:36 ` Robert Millan
2010-09-08 22:46   ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-09  7:53     ` future of grub commands setup and install ? Treutwein Bernhard
2010-09-09 12:14       ` Robert Millan
2010-09-10  6:28         ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-10  6:38         ` Treutwein Bernhard
2010-09-08 15:28 ` LiveCD bootloader Andreas Born
2010-09-08 15:46   ` Colin Watson
2010-09-08 16:31     ` GRUB2 fails when booting from CD Andreas Born
2010-09-26 20:22       ` Andreas Born
2010-09-27 15:17         ` Phillip Susi
     [not found]           ` <4CA1FEF0.4000209@googlemail.com>
     [not found]             ` <4CA215C9.9060000@cfl.rr.com>
     [not found]               ` <4CA219B9.3020209@googlemail.com>
     [not found]                 ` <4CA22FC6.9000701@cfl.rr.com>
2010-09-28 20:19                   ` Andreas Born
2010-12-25 20:45       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-12-27 12:30         ` Andreas Born
2011-01-04 14:45           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 22:48   ` LiveCD bootloader Teresa e Junior
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-09 10:34 Tom Davies
2010-09-15  1:21 ` Teresa e Junior

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