Bug#422794: gfxterm and vesa

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:31:03AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Jonny <jonny at csc.jp> writes:
> 
> > Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> write:
> >
> >> Can you try 800x600x32 and 640x480x8 ?
> >
> > Since my machine is't supporting a 32-bit color, 800x600x32 can't be used. If 
> > it's 800x600x24, it works well.
> 
> Ah nice. Robert, I think we might reduce the color depth used by
> default. We might even use 16 instead of 24 IMHO. What do you think?

Not sure.. does 16 work on all machines?  What about old PCs that don't
support VESA at all?  I think we should have some way to probe all this
stuff before enabling gfxterm.

The X people use discover and xresprobe.  Perhaps we could do that too?

As short term, if you think 640x480x16 is a reasonable default, we could set
that.  But since this part of code belongs to upstream, I'd like to see if
they have some comments about it (forwarding).

GRUB maintainers (specialy daChaac), do you have any comments on this?

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