From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OtU5A-0005JV-Oc for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:29:36 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36549 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OtU56-0005Hg-C2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:29:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtU4t-0007Xl-7v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:29:21 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:41307) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtU4t-0007XY-1s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:29:19 -0400 Received: by fxm3 with SMTP id 3so629037fxm.0 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:29:18 -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=AYsJr1EyNEa7aJxaYcJW0ZgE8taXsUBKWWoIi6mEQlI=; b=wMUBsWNTMGCfjuD+4xcfiSO/A/oZAR7RC8CAel0GxSmSTRTl+przZ8h0dTcd2NET5v cee2GWhoujq9VtMZ8IQiSFo56q/Gm38h/m2pu506I7raH3x6L4NMtHfZPShk142xAEMy EzHRPDyUqLb/x/Pcr5sbVcM4GrSJwooa3FuKQ= 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=UMmCJJ+zWrIO8HNJncfKlLzKyH8Wg6cSVW0vODo+SZM/0DoVaqYFOWWHBthjtf1W1V CFN3FBQ+r/+7CvDqjUm5W/VatFdo7hzVuzETedRos6P/Ze5SDooCdI1Fv62X3agVGYl7 ZLVAvUqFtJsIn1A27D/9tI5p+AoZ6fa0wlVyY= Received: by 10.223.106.209 with SMTP id y17mr70995fao.105.1283988557988; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:29:17 -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 u8sm392915fah.36.2010.09.08.16.29.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C881C45.6080107@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:29:09 +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> <4C8813AB.4070206@gmail.com> <20100908200020.676f739a@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100908200020.676f739a@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 23:29:34 -0000 On 09/09/10 01:00, Teresa e Junior wrote: > On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:52:27 +0200 > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> > Hello, Vladimir! > > What do you mean with that? Let us suppose, I set: > > GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x800,1024x768,640x480 > > and if the hardware supports the first, it will use the first, and so > forth? > > yes > Thank you! > Teresa e Junior > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko