[haiku-development] Re: Boot Screen Not Displayed with Various Video Chips
- From: "Rene Gollent" <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:09:59 -0500
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, if a resolution of 1024x768 is selected as the fail-safe video
>> mode in the boot menu, the boot screen is displayed on the LCD monitor via
>> all of the these video chips and the refresh rate is 60 Hz in all these
>> cases. Consequently, I think that the resolution of the boot screen should
>> be limited to 1024x768.
>>
>> I don't see the point of using a boot screen with a higher resolution than
>> 1024x768 since the logo and icon start to look quite small at larger
>> resolutions. Zeta used 800x600, and their boot screen looks fine.
If I'm remembering correctly, our boot loader actually tries to use
whatever resolution your monitor says is native via EDID, if that
information is retrievable. Not sure about how that's causing the
strange refresh rate though, or what the fallback behavior is if no
EDID is returned.
Regards,
Rene
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