On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:54:25 +0930 Brendan Trotter <btrot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Brendan Trotter <btrot...@gmail.com> > 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... _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
