On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:30:51 +0100 Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 June 2006 02:21, Julian Seward wrote: > > I've been using -std-vga for a couple of weeks now, and it works > > well at least for the guests I've been using (Win2K/XP, Red Hat 9, > > SuSE 10.1). > > Really? My win2k install couldn't do anything useful with -std-vga. > It would only do the very basic 640x480x4 mode. I'm fairly sure win9x > can't do anything useful with straight VGA either. Same here. Also std-vga seemed to be slower than cirrus when I tried it recently on my linux guests, although I haven't actually measured anything. > > Overall it seems to work much better than the default 5446 Julian, in what way is std-vga better than the cirrus emulation? > > simulation and it seems to me that non-developer users, who are > > presumably the larger fraction of the user base, would benefit from > > having -std-vga as the default. The "it just works" property is > > important for new users, and -std-vga has more of that than the > > 5446 just at the moment. > > In my experience the Cirrus emulation "just works", and is supported > by pretty much every OS out the box. AFAIK Windows earlier than XP > doesn't needs additional 3rd party drivers to support anonymous VESA > hardware. Seconded - the default should be the one best supported by guests out of the box. As it stands, that's cirrus. > > Paul > -- Kevin F. Quinn
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