Arne Brutschy wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for the response! > > On Di, 2008-02-19 at 15:08 +0000, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote: > >> well, I think it is very unlikely that the vgabios is located at >> /usr/share/kvm >> or so. >> > It actually is, and qemu is using it correctly. > > I contacted the author of the VBEMP driver. He wrote me that there exist > several methods of requesting the available modes from the BIOS. > Apparently, by adding a mode to the vbetables-gen.c it's only added to > parts of the tables and not to all of them, which is incorrect. By only > using vbetables-gen I edited the BIOS only half-way. > > I checked by using a infovbe tool from the authors website [1]. The > tools reports my mode (1920x1200) correctly for the first method used, > but misses it in the second method (output attached). > > Additionally, I think it may have something to do with the video memory, > as 1920x1200x32 required more than 8 MB of vmem. I increased the value > in vbetables-gen.c, but I don't know it this is sufficient to make it > work (the value gets reported correctly by the driver, though). > >
Yes, qemu only allocates 8MB. It should be easy to increase this. > I'm trying to contact the VGAbios people about this, because this list > might be the wrong place for it. > > Please keep kvm-devel copied, several people are interested. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
