Re: Issues with GRUB-gfxboot

[J. Silverman]

Hi Pete and Vesa,

Thank you both for your help! Pete, some of the other developers and I were 
thinking there was something wrong with vmware, like you said.  Someone is 
going to try out installing SuSE (where the gfxboot menu originated) and see 
if its menu works, just to make sure something didn't happen when the Debian 
GRUB was patched.

Vesa, if it is something wrong with the code, where would we begin to check. 
 I'm not an expert at GRUB, so I am not really sure where and how to fix it 
if it is a coding issue.

Thanks,
JS


----Original Message Follows----
From: chaac <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Issues with GRUB-gfxboot
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:23:55 +0200


Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> IIRC, VMware is missing some VGA BIOS functions, or get it wrong as in your 
> case. You can try to complain to them. A bug, I reported 4 years
> ago, was fixed lately (getting serial mode 7e2 wrong)...
>
> Good luck,
> Pete

Are you sure it is bug in VMware ?... In old DOS days when we were using 
VESA BIOS calls to access highres video modes, most of implementations I 
looked did use WRONG rendering technique. So in different cards output was 
still wrong. So basicly they don't remember to figure out real dimensions of 
virtual screen buffer and therefor effect from that screenshot is quite 
common in different video cards. So I am goingin to bet this problem can be 
fixed by correcting code.

Thanks,
Vesa Jääskeläinen

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