From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OtTVQ-0005qa-Qw for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:52:40 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59830 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OtTVN-0005nt-2A for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:52:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtTVL-00026v-So for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:52:36 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:44739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtTVL-00026k-Lo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:52:35 -0400 Received: by fxm3 with SMTP id 3so610364fxm.0 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:52:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0pp87NVz4X1cLq39oREOShxqZ4CZ3R0aqB0zWdAAIOM=; b=dpuBpjMHWHo4XmezMuNuCu54p0yCJuSHXjIERCFi2F7gbnyZFOHBFmw77nQW8wWLiA Vfd2qw1C3U1VY4CmmxKIwVPWlhsC955NdXtWndKPdFFrfIORno+ICosWzKizkkvA1s2/ XQ991a2l5jOZ5i6dytn4rNTYLC9y0TToU/VI8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Z1jhV6ZqprZILPklGhtTuqfvCYd05YOc0BF8wPGyQen4hRMRqZRDMOEZdNyba8W+n0 bb4MlTN/W7VAdI29m7ykRTmmST3ItUANT9HYu8hv5SYl+Q6/r/vLokHqq7eIh03z89cA s9x3Fg034L04iuO6iMmYIGE1wKOtfPzX4mJe8= Received: by 10.223.113.129 with SMTP id a1mr359999faq.85.1283986354635; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:52:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.yeeloong.phnet (196-36.76-83.cust.bluewin.ch [83.76.36.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t6sm382670faa.27.2010.09.08.15.52.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:52:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C8813AB.4070206@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:52:27 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux mips64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100805 Icedove/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <20100907234220.54cf8040@gmail.com> <20100908194745.3960661e@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100908194745.3960661e@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: LiveCD bootloader X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:52:38 -0000 On 09/09/10 00:47, Teresa e Junior wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:54:25 +0930 > Brendan Trotter wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Brendan Trotter >> 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 > > -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko