On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:52:27 +0200 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/09/10 00:47, Teresa e Junior wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:54:25 +0930 > > Brendan Trotter<btrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Brendan Trotter<btrot...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> GRUB and Linux use "video mode numbers" to request a video mode. > >>> These video mode numbers can be different for different video > >>> cards. Early versions of VBE did define some standard mode > >>> numbers, but these became obsolete in VBE version 2.0 (back in > >>> 1994). Software written after 1994 shouldn't rely on these > >>> obsolete video mode numbers. For example, if you're lucky mode > >>> 0x118 might be 1024*768 with 24-BPP, but nothing guarantees that > >>> anymore, and it could easily be any other video mode. There's > >>> also no guarantee that the the video card supports the video mode > >>> (e.g. a lot of video cards only support 32-BPP video modes and > >>> don't support any 24-BPP video modes; and some only support > >>> 24-BPP video modes and not 32-BPP video modes; and the same is > >>> true for 15-BPP vs. 16-BPP). > >> My apologies. > >> > >> It seems GRUB2 has improved a lot, and doesn't rely on the obsolete > >> "standard video mode numbers" anymore. Except for problems caused > >> by video modes that are supported by the video card but not > >> supported by the monitor; it's mostly only a problem with Linux > >> itself now. > >> > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Brendan > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Grub-devel mailing list > >> Grub-devel@gnu.org > >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >> > > Thanks! We have to set 640x480 as default anyway... > > > > > You can specify multiple comma-separated possibilities in order of > priorities > > _______________________________________________ > > Grub-devel mailing list > > Grub-devel@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > > > > > Hello, Vladimir! What do you mean with that? Let us suppose, I set: GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x800,1024x768,640x480 and if the hardware supports the first, it will use the first, and so forth? Thank you! Teresa e Junior _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
