From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40213) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp2ij-0000lt-2C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:32:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp2ih-0001CC-6s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:32:37 -0400 Received: from hobi.com ([161.58.203.140]:54747) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp2ih-0001Bs-2V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:32:35 -0400 From: Rick Vernam Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 13:32:31 -0500 References: <201108041103.10962.rickv@hobi.com> <20110804160930.GD31693@redhat.com> <4E3AE1C7.9000402@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4E3AE1C7.9000402@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201108041332.31393.rickv@hobi.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga qxl Reply-To: rickv@hobi.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-devel On Thursday 04 August 2011 13:15:35 Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > I recently had black screen problems with QXL in 0.14.x that turned out > > to actually be a Seabios bug due to the default 64MB vram QXL has. > > It is a seabios issue indeed. > > > I suspect > > this would hit 0.15.x builds too. If this is what you're hitting, then > > reducing the vram to 32MB is a temporary workaround that should help, eg > > > > -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432 > > There is a fixed seabios binary @ http://spice-space.org/download/seabios/ Yep, I put that bios in and removed -global qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432 from the comand line, and it worked just fine. Thanks. > > Patches are all upstream, so just fetching the latest seabios bits (git > master branch) and building yourself will work too. > > cheers, > Gerd