Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] fix screen corruption bug in vga_draw_graphic()

2008-02-25 Thread Arne Brutschy
Hey, this patch works like a charm! No pointer trails, no bars through dialogs... Perfect quality. Thanks alot Andreas! Arne On Fr, 2008-02-22 at 21:36 +0100, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote: > hi, > > the attached patch fixes the screen corruption issues which were > reported by others, see: > > h

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] fix widescreen resolution issues (v2)

2008-02-22 Thread Arne Brutschy
Hi all, On Fr, 2008-02-22 at 03:11 +0100, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote: > I found out what crashed kvm when I increased VGA_RAM_SIZE in pc.h. The > crash was caused by a really _dirty_ hack in a kvm specific part of > vga.c (it took me at least an hour to find this amazing piece of code... > at le

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] fix widescreen resolution issues

2008-02-21 Thread Arne Brutschy
work. Qemu crashes now as windows switches to graphics mode. Safe mode does not work either.. Arne -- Arne Brutschy Ph.D. StudentEmailarne.brutschy(AT)ulb.ac.be IRIDIA CP 194/6 Web iridia.ulb.ac.be/~abrutschy Universite' Libre de Bruxelles Tel

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] fix widescreen resolution issues

2008-02-21 Thread Arne Brutschy
gic limitation" to 1600x1200... > @Arne Brutschy: could you please test the 1920x1200 resolution with your > setup? I did, it does not work. :( I can select the video mode, but upon activation qemu crashes. I think the video memory overwrites system memory because qemu does not allocate th

Re: [kvm-devel] Widescreen troubles again

2008-02-20 Thread Arne Brutschy
On Di, 2008-02-19 at 16:21 +, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote: > as far as I have seen the 'special' modes have a preprocessor constant defined > in vgabios/vbe.h which looks like > #define VBE_OWN_MODE_1152X864X 0x14c > > the numbers (0x14c in this case) correspond to those used in vbetables-g

Re: [kvm-devel] Widescreen troubles again

2008-02-19 Thread Arne Brutschy
Hi, thanks for the response! On Di, 2008-02-19 at 15:08 +, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote: > well, I think it is very unlikely that the vgabios is located at > /usr/share/kvm > or so. It actually is, and qemu is using it correctly. I contacted the author of the VBEMP driver. He wrote me that th

[kvm-devel] Widescreen troubles again

2008-02-18 Thread Arne Brutschy
Hey, I'm still trying to get kvm/qemu to run at 1920x1200x32 widescreen mode (my tft's resolution). Host is 32bit Gentoo, guest is 32bit Windows XP. I'm using kvm-60. Following this post [1], I added the following lines to kvm-60/vgabios/vbetables-gen.c { 1920, 1200, 8 , 0x