[haiku-development] Re: Default Boot Splash Resolution

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:44:12 +0100 CET

Gabriele Biffi <mlist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There's a lot of people out there who want to run Haiku in their Asus 
> EEE (why should someone want that thing is beyond my understanding, 
> but 
> who am I to judge?) and its digital-photo-frame screen works at 
> 800x480, 
> and there's some little notebook with 1024x640.

If the BIOS does not support EDID on those machines, and reports higher 
resolutions, that shouldn't be our problem.

> Why not going with the classic 640x480? It's just a boot screen and 
> it's 
> there for few seconds anyway.

Because you're going to be stuck with it when your graphics card is not 
supported.
Also, it would just look crappy.

Bye,
   Axel.


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