29.11.2013 19:59, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] >>> And while at it, there's another bugreport against vgabios package in >>> Debian, see http://bugs.debian.org/685097 . It looks like windows8 >>> isn't happy with vgabios-provided modes and does not let to change >>> resolution at all, sticking at 1024x768. That bugreport points to >>> a patchset, >>> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-05/msg00260.html >>> (this is just one patch from it), which has been applied to xen copy >>> of vgabios to solve exactly this issue with win8, and reportedly it >>> works there. It looks like something similar should be done in >>> seavgabios too, since with it, win8 guest is also stuck at the same >>> resolution. >> >> Hmm, last time I tried resolution switching in win8 worked just fine >> with seavgabios. Can you double-check? > > I just installed a fresh win8 VM, and it is indeed stuck with 1024x768, > with the "screen resolution" combo-box grayed out in the appropriate > control panel screen, -- there's no way to choose any other resolution.
It was a false alarm really. I'm sorry for this. After numerous experiments with different vga bioses, I had a leftover file named vgabios-stdvga.bin in the current directory. It was some version of plex/bochs vgabios. And that one didn't work. When I actually removed it and tried with seavgabios, it worked correctly and it lets me to change resolutions. It doesn't have 1920x1024 resolution still, but it is a significantly better behavour. So the win8 part of my question goes away :) Thanks, /mjt _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
