From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal.
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 12:15:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y88ltv78.fsf@student.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507050105.54961.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Tue, 5 Jul 2005 01:05:54 +0200")
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org> writes:
> No. Since the BIOS does not provide the geometry for each VGA mode, we must
> maintain a table in that case. And, the table differs among video cards. So I
> do not want to allow the user to change it to an arbitrary mode.
>
> What we really need is to support VESA. The screen of the VGA mode is too
> small to do fancy stuff.
For VGA the first modes are all the same, so we can use a fixed
table. For VESA modes we can get the width and height. But that
should be done when setting the mode.
> BTW, is the VGA terminal working well? Since Marco changed the mode to 0x10
> from 0x12, the screen is a bit smaller than before, and I'm not sure if the
> menu entry editor works with this.
The menu should support all kinds of screen sizes anyway. For example on the
PPC the text screen is really big.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-05 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-03 21:06 FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal Vincent Pelletier
2005-07-03 21:16 ` [Bulk] " Vincent Pelletier
2005-07-04 23:05 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-07-04 23:19 ` Vincent Pelletier
2005-07-05 10:15 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2005-07-05 15:56 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-07-05 16:26 ` Marco Gerards
2005-07-12 20:05 ` [PATCH] " Vincent Pelletier
2005-07-13 8:40 ` [PATCHv2] " Vincent Pelletier
2005-07-13 16:41 ` Marco Gerards
2005-07-13 21:29 ` Vincent Pelletier
2005-08-04 12:29 ` Marco Gerards
2005-08-04 18:13 ` Marco Gerards
2005-08-09 3:26 ` Hollis Blanchard
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