On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:04:27PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > Video mode setup function tries to use all available video drivers to > initialize video mode. It uses first it founds working. So if someone > writes VGA driver then you can add it to queue and if VBE2+ is not > available then it would try next driver, in this case it would be VGA > driver. > > You can specify video mode to be 800x600 without color depth so it will > use most colorful mode it finds. But if first adapter has 800x600x16 and > second would have 800x600x32 then it would take first as there was valid > mode. > > Other option would be to probe for modes and then select one. But this > should be in script or in custom module code. Or gfxmode would be > extended to allow multiple selections like 1024x768;800x600;640x480. > Also there are starting to be lots of wide screen LCD's that should be > somehow supported too. I think that Video API do not have any limitation > on this regard.
Which do you think should be the default (at least in the short term)? Note: the default gfxmode definition set by update-grub is defined in official GRUB (see grub2/util/grub.d/00_header.in). -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
