Re: graphics mode

2005-09-11 Thread Marco Gerards
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 04 September 2005 01:09 am, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Does everything (especially scrolling) still work correctly after >> changing it? If it does, I do agree. > > Why not? I vaguely remember there was a problem with scrolling. I do not

Re: graphics mode

2005-09-11 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 04 September 2005 01:09 am, Marco Gerards wrote: > Does everything (especially scrolling) still work correctly after > changing it? If it does, I do agree. Why not? > > The palette optimization is dirty, but required when the color depth is > > very small. > > How does this work? It s

Re: graphics mode

2005-09-03 Thread Marco Gerards
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Get font data from BIOS and attach shades to glyphs optionally. I prefer the fontmanager, it is portable. > I guess there is no reason that we cannot use the mode 0x12 instead of 0x10 > (640x350x16), if they can. Since the height 350 is very

graphics mode

2005-09-03 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Today I checked the graphic console patch by Mandriva to get some idea. Their patch looks very similar to a patch by Conectiva or Red Hat (not surprising, as Mandriva = Mandrake + Conectiva). Basically, they add these functions into GRUB Legacy: - Set the VGA mode to 0x12 (640x480x16). - Get f