Bug#544155: please test this GRUB snapshot

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:48:01PM +0200, Maik Zumstrull wrote:
> 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.

I suppose in your specific hardware it's slower than usual, but yes, there's
a lot of room for improvement.  Anyway, that's not related to our bug.

I'll wait a bit more to give Luca a chance to test it, before including it
in a new upload.

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