Re: Widescreen troubles again

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Arne Brutschy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the response!
>
> On Di, 2008-02-19 at 15:08 +0000, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote:
>   
>> well, I think it is very unlikely that the vgabios is located at /usr/share/kvm
>> or so. 
>>     
> It actually is, and qemu is using it correctly.
>
> I contacted the author of the VBEMP driver. He wrote me that there exist
> several methods of requesting the available modes from the BIOS.
> Apparently, by adding a mode to the vbetables-gen.c it's only added to
> parts of the tables and not to all of them, which is incorrect. By only
> using vbetables-gen I edited the BIOS only half-way.
>
> I checked by using a infovbe tool from the authors website [1]. The
> tools reports my mode (1920x1200) correctly for the first method used,
> but misses it in the second method (output attached).
>
> Additionally, I think it may have something to do with the video memory,
> as 1920x1200x32 required more than 8 MB of vmem. I increased the value
> in vbetables-gen.c, but I don't know it this is sufficient to make it
> work (the value gets reported correctly by the driver, though).
>
>   

Yes, qemu only allocates 8MB.  It should be easy to increase this.

> I'm trying to contact the VGAbios people about this, because this list
> might be the wrong place for it.
>
>   

Please keep kvm-devel copied, several people are interested.

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