Bug#535026: patch, please test

[Luca Tettamanti]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Robert Millan<rmh at aybabtu.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:07:52PM +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Robert Millan<rmh at aybabtu.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:31:50PM +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The patch for the size of FB is not sufficient; applying the color
>> >> hack makes vesafb work:
>> >
>> > Great.  We're almost finished.  Please could you test:
>> >
>> >  - Whether the color hack alone is sufficient, or the patch for FB size
>> >    is also needed.
>>
>> The color hack is sufficient.
>>
>> >  - Attached patch to (hopefully) fix color properly instead of the hack.
>>
>> It doesn't work. This is what vesafb picks up:
>>
>> vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xffffc90010100000, using
>> 768k, total 768k
>> vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=0
>> vesafb: scrolling: redraw
>> vesafb: Pseudocolor: size=0:1:1:1, shift=0:0:0:0
>
> What vga= paramter are you using?  0x305 ?

Yes.

> What does "vbeinfo" GRUB command
> (with unpatched GRUB) print for this mode (0x105, as you need to substract
> 0x200)?

Ah. Packed color...

> What does "linux16 /linux.img vga=ask" say about this mode?

Well it just list the modes (and - yes - 0x305 is present)

> Do other modes work?

All modes work except for the ones using packed color format (8 bits).

Luca