From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp2SO-0003qw-TD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:15:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp2SN-0005NE-GO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:15:44 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33613) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp2SM-0005N1-W4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:15:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4E3AE1C7.9000402@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:15:35 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <201108041103.10962.rickv@hobi.com> <20110804160930.GD31693@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20110804160930.GD31693@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga qxl List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: qemu-devel Hi, > I recently had black screen problems with QXL in 0.14.x that turned out to > actually be a Seabios bug due to the default 64MB vram QXL has. It is a seabios issue indeed. > I suspect > this would hit 0.15.x builds too. If this is what you're hitting, then > reducing the vram to 32MB is a temporary workaround that should help, eg > > -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432 There is a fixed seabios binary @ http://spice-space.org/download/seabios/ Patches are all upstream, so just fetching the latest seabios bits (git master branch) and building yourself will work too. cheers, Gerd