Building vgabios from source as described above added the missing modes
for me too. But still the vga driver does not work properly - it builds
the screen very slowly line by line and takes 20 seconds or more just
for the login-screen.
After some hours I gave up on vga and switched to the
The standard cirrus driver works fine - the problem only occurs with
vesa.
The reason for using vesa is that I can get my native resolution
(1680x1050) while cirrus is restricted to 1280x1024.
The workaround for vesa is to either remove the 'splash'-option in
grub.cfg or boot the recovery kernel
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: qemu-kvm
When starting kvm with vesa emulation (-vga std), kvm freezes at the new
graphical boot splash and shows a black screen. Kvm boots fine when
removing the 'splash' option from /boot/grub/grub.cfg in the guest. I
first noticed the problem after
Thank you so much! You did a brilliant job! Works perfectly since this
morning. No idea what fixed it, maybe it was kernel 2.6.31-10 or
xserver-common.
Now the vesa-emulation (-vga std) works for me with karmic guest on
karmic host and I can get any resolution I want including my native one.
The
