On 03/05/12 23:20, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 08:10:41AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> On 03/04/12 20:06, Kevin O'Connor wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:09:10AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>>> Did some more testing of the vgabios today, two issues popped up: >>>> >>>> (1) screen isn't cleared in some cases. Visible with grub1 in text >>>> mode. When it displays the menu a few stray chars are visible. >>>> Even more obvious it becomes when hitting 'c' then to get a >>>> prompt, then alot of the menu is still visible. >>> >>> Thanks. Can you point me to an image and/or the steps to reproduce? >>> I've tracked down a few of these before, and I'm sure I can fix it if >>> I can reproduce it. >> >> Install fedora 15 (or older) in qemu (mimimal is enougth). Edit >> /boot/grub/menu.lst and comment out the splashimage and hiddenmenu >> lines. On next reboot grub will come up in text mode and you'll see the >> behavior described above. > > I couldn't reproduce the issue on the initial screen, but I can > reproduce when hitting the 'c' key. Turns out to be an integer > overflow issue - patch below.
Fixes it. thanks, Gerd _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
