Hi Jeremy, > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 17:53 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: >> A minor complaint: Sugar came up in 800x600, which doesn't look >> very good. I wonder if we can try for 1280x1024 by default >> instead. (It might just be the graphics card qemu is emulating, >> but even if that's the case we should consider fixing it for >> qemu..)
> It's the graphics card qemu emulates (Cirrus). The answer to > fixing it is to get something more reasonable emulated within qemu > than an ancient Cirrus Logic chip ;-) I just booted the Ubuntu 8.10 live image on the same (Rawhide) kvm install and it's using 1024x768 by default, which is much more pleasant: (--) CIRRUS(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024) (**) CIRRUS(0): *Default mode "1024x768": 78.8 MHz, 60.0 kHz, 75.0 Hz (II) CIRRUS(0): Modeline "1024x768"x75.0 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz) Perhaps there's a patch we can pull? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
