Re: [kvm-devel] Widescreen troubles again --> solved

2008-02-20 Thread Haydn Solomon
Great Job, Any chance on getting it up to resolution 1900x1200? Looking forward to these updates. On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Andreas Winkelbauer < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > I managed to get kvm-61 working at a resolution of 1680x1050 (using > -std-vga; > windowed as well as fulls

Re: [kvm-devel] Widescreen troubles again --> solved

2008-02-20 Thread Andreas Winkelbauer
hi, I managed to get kvm-61 working at a resolution of 1680x1050 (using -std-vga; windowed as well as fullscreen) with windows xp as guest os. Basically I took the following steps: * increase vga memory from 8MB to 16MB (in vbetables-gen.c) * add modes to vbetables-gen.c * change qemu/hw/vga_int.

Re: [kvm-devel] Widescreen troubles again

2008-02-20 Thread Arne Brutschy
On Di, 2008-02-19 at 16:21 +, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote: > as far as I have seen the 'special' modes have a preprocessor constant defined > in vgabios/vbe.h which looks like > #define VBE_OWN_MODE_1152X864X 0x14c > > the numbers (0x14c in this case) correspond to those used in vbetables-g

Re: [kvm-devel] Widescreen troubles again

2008-02-19 Thread Andreas Winkelbauer
hi, > 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 > usi

Re: [kvm-devel] Widescreen troubles again

2008-02-19 Thread Avi Kivity
Arne Brutschy wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for the response! > > On Di, 2008-02-19 at 15:08 +, 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 t

Re: [kvm-devel] Widescreen troubles again

2008-02-19 Thread Arne Brutschy
Hi, thanks for the response! On Di, 2008-02-19 at 15:08 +, 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 th

Re: [kvm-devel] Widescreen troubles again

2008-02-19 Thread Andreas Winkelbauer
hi, > After that, I called make which correctly updated vbemodes.h and > compiled the bios. I then copied the bios to /usr/share/kvm > and /usr/share/qemu. well, I think it is very unlikely that the vgabios is located at /usr/share/kvm or so. if you are unsure do a "locate vgabios.bin". I've inst