Re: [Qemu-devel] New VGA BIOS

["Nigel J. Terry" <nigel@nigelterry.net>]

I posted this a while back, and got no response. If it is a stupid 
question, can someone tell me why, or can anyone help? Thanks

Nigel J. Terry wrote:
> Fabrice Bellard wrote:
>> I commited a new VGA BIOS (no commit message because the mail was too 
>> big). Important changes were made in order to support some Linux 
>> distributions heavily using the VESA VBE extensions (such as 
>> GeexBox). The -std-vga option must be used in this case.
>>
>> Fabrice.
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> Fabrice et al.
>
> I downloaded and tested this new VGA enhanced version from CVS this 
> morning. Running Windows XP as guest on FC5 as host with user and 
> kernal kqemu, I found that QEMU exited with an error:
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> Could not open SDL display
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> when I tried resolutions of 1152 x 864, 1280 x 1024 and 1600 x 1200. 
> This occurred when I attempted to go full screen, worked fine in a 
> window.
> 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 worked fine in a window or full screen.
>
> I am running on a laptop with a screen size of 1280 x 800 so the 
> failing resolutions are when the emulated VGA is larger than the 
> physical screen.
> Is this expected behavior?
>
> What I would really like is the ability to run at 1280x800 and be 1:1 
> with my screen when in full screen mode. Is this possible, or am I 
> limited by XP?
>
> Thanks for a great product
>
> Nigel
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