Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

[Alex Thiel]

On Saturday 16 February 2002 07:55, Timmy Douglas wrote:
> it seems that i'm not getting the flag (bit 11) in the mbi
> structure...
>
> i think the flags i'm getting are 0x7e7 (11111100111)
>
> any ideas?
>
> i'm testing on a dell inspiron 3800 laptop which has vesa support
> i think.
>

Did you try 'vbeprobe' from the GRUB shell. This will show you all the 
available video modes for your video adapter. Furthermore, you must have bit 
2 (0x04) set in the kernel header. Otherwise, bit 11 in the MBI flags field 
will never be set.

Alex


> i'm pretty sure i applied the patch and compiled everything right...
>
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