Re: [Qemu-devel] seavgabios resolutions, win8

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> +    { 0x18d, { MM_DIRECT, 1920, 1080, 16, 8, 16, SEG_GRAPH } },
> +    { 0x18e, { MM_DIRECT, 1920, 1080, 24, 8, 16, SEG_GRAPH } },
> +    { 0x18f, { MM_DIRECT, 1920, 1080, 32, 8, 16, SEG_GRAPH } },

> I'm not sure I understand how list of modes is maintained/used in
> seavgabios.  The above patch at least allows one of the very common
> modes to be selected in windows clients.

Just get-send-email a proper patch to the seabios list.

> And while at it, there's another bugreport against vgabios package in
> Debian, see http://bugs.debian.org/685097 .  It looks like windows8
> isn't happy with vgabios-provided modes and does not let to change
> resolution at all, sticking at 1024x768.  That bugreport points to
> a patchset, http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-05/msg00260.html
> (this is just one patch from it), which has been applied to xen copy
> of vgabios to solve exactly this issue with win8, and reportedly it
> works there.  It looks like something similar should be done in
> seavgabios too, since with it, win8 guest is also stuck at the same
> resolution.

Hmm, last time I tried resolution switching in win8 worked just fine
with seavgabios.  Can you double-check?

cheers,
  Gerd