From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Dpkko-0007qm-6U for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 06:34:16 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dpkkj-0007pD-QF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 06:34:10 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dpkki-0007ne-3b for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 06:34:08 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dpkj3-0006oA-4L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 06:32:25 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DpkYt-0001vE-RM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 06:21:56 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0608B86D7 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 12:15:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06156-09 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:21:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3528210 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 12:15:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E43BC045 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 12:15:39 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <42C85357.20500@yahoo.fr> <200507050105.54961.okuji@enbug.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 12:15:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200507050105.54961.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Tue, 5 Jul 2005 01:05:54 +0200") Message-ID: <87y88ltv78.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: FIXME: These should be dynamically obtained from a terminal. 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: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 10:34:11 -0000 "Yoshinori K. Okuji" 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