Bug#544155: please test this GRUB snapshot

[Maik Zumstrull]

Robert Millan wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:31:44PM +0200, Maik Zumstrull wrote:
> > 
> > Still broken, not noticably different.
> 
> There we go again:
> 
>   http://people.debian.org/~rmh/ati/dacfix4/

Improvement.

It successfully enters gfxterm, console commands including vbeinfo work
in graphical mode, and it can successfully boot a kernel from graphical
mode.

However, the gfxterm console is insanely slow. You can literally watch
it redraw the screen from top to bottom every time the console scrolls
by one line. This isn't necessary a bug, maybe grub's framebuffer
terminal implementation is slow by design, but it is barely usable this
way. I plan to use it with GRUB_TERMINAL=console anyway, though, so I
don't personally care very much about this.