Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-16 Thread Alex Thiel
On Saturday 16 February 2002 07:55, Timmy Douglas wrote: it seems that i'm not getting the flag (bit 11) in the mbi structure... i think the flags i'm getting are 0x7e7 (1100111) any ideas? i'm testing on a dell inspiron 3800 laptop which has vesa support i think. Did you try

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-16 Thread Timmy Douglas
Alex Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Saturday 16 February 2002 07:55, Timmy Douglas wrote: it seems that i'm not getting the flag (bit 11) in the mbi structure... i think the flags i'm getting are 0x7e7 (1100111) any ideas? i'm testing on a dell inspiron 3800 laptop which has vesa

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-15 Thread Timmy Douglas
it seems that i'm not getting the flag (bit 11) in the mbi structure... i think the flags i'm getting are 0x7e7 (1100111) any ideas? i'm testing on a dell inspiron 3800 laptop which has vesa support i think. i'm pretty sure i applied the patch and compiled everything right...

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Thu, 14 Feb 2002 08:46:37 +0100, Christoph Plattner wrote: What is VBE in GRUB ? VBE stands for VESA BIOS EXTENSION which provides a simple interface for graphics, video, and audio devices. When we are talking about VBE in GRUB, we mean only the graphics part of the specification. Because

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:11:14 +0100, Christoph Plattner wrote: So VBE can be used as library functionality for kernel booted from GRUB (via multiboot spec) to use VESA calles without switching to real mode, or is it only for the booting itself. The former, of course. The Multiboot

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-14 Thread Alex Thiel
On Thursday 14 February 2002 03:01, Timmy Douglas wrote: and one thing about your docs: +---+ 0 | vbe_control_info | 4 | vbe_mode_info | 8 | vbe_mode | 10 | vbe_interface_seg | 12 |

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-13 Thread Alex Thiel
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:02, Timmy Douglas wrote: i want to enable some flags for the multiboot information structure. so i can get some VBE info. however, the docs talk about two separate groups of flags: the ones in the binary header and the multiboot info flags. it says that the

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-13 Thread Timmy Douglas
Alex Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:02, Timmy Douglas wrote: i want to enable some flags for the multiboot information structure. so i can get some VBE info. however, the docs talk about two separate groups of flags: the ones in the binary header and the

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-13 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello, I often hear from it on this mailing list, but I have not got the background. What is VBE in GRUB ? Can anybody give me about 5 sentences ? Bye Christoph P. Timmy Douglas wrote: Alex Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:02, Timmy Douglas wrote: i want to