On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 09:44:38AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > >>Which qemu version? Which seabios& vgabios version? > > > >qemu is the spice v36 branch with some unrelated patches. > >seabios + vgabios upstream (seabios with 0x9000000 size hack). > > > >I can retest with qemu upstream. > > Hmm, same here. > > >> > >>Windows xp booting in 4bit usually indicates VBE doesn't work at > >>all, trying to enable vesafb in linux fails too then. > > > >VBE is working fine - attached are the VBE calls made in three cases: > > * -vga std > > * -vga qxl with the normal 64 MB framebuffer. > > * -vga qxl with 8 MB framebuffer (reported) (it's identical to the first) > > > >Note that this is all without the qxl driver working, but just with a > >windows xp install > >with no qxl drivers. > > Same here, works fine. XP with SP3 btw, maybe this makes a difference. > Can you try to boot linux with vga=0x314?
tested tinycore, looks like it sets VBE correctly without my patch, to a 16 bit color mode, right after boot: VBE: write index=0x3 val=0x10 VBE: write index=0x1 val=0x320 VBE: write index=0x2 val=0x258 VBE: write index=0x5 val=0x0 VBE: write index=0x4 val=0x41 And later Xvesa sets a 24bit color mode: VBE: write index=0x3 val=0x18 VBE: write index=0x1 val=0x400 VBE: write index=0x2 val=0x300 VBE: write index=0x5 val=0x0 VBE: write index=0x4 val=0x41 And this is all while reporting the whole 64 MiB VBE: read index=0xa val=0x400 But this just means linux handles it fine. I don't have a non SP3 handy but I'll try to get one to test later. Not a really pressing issue. > > cheers, > Gerd > >
