[haiku-development] Re: Is Intel 810 Video Driver Needed?

Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Urias McCullough wrote:
> > Well, I do know for a fact that this laptop seen running here in 
> > "safe mode":
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/umccullough/378472590/in/set-72157615324866653/
> > > >
> > no longer displays properly. I tried it a couple months ago and 
> > "safe
> > mode" is scrambled now (looks like a video memory alignment issue).

Not sure why, but the VGA mode was indeed broken before r32141.
And that's probably what you see on that image, because the boot logo 
certainly never worked there, if your chip has the same output as 
Gerald's.

> Below is the VESA mode info from the syslog of my computer which has 
> the 
> Intel 810 chip:
> 
> VESA version = 3.0

3.0 already!

> OEM string: Intel(R) 8xx Chipset Video BIOS
[...]
>   114: 800 x 600 x 16 (a = 27, mem = 6, phy = 0, p = 1, b = 1)
>   115: 800 x 600 x 24 (a = 26, mem = 6, phy = 0, p = 1, b = 1)
>   105: 1024 x 768 x 8 (a = 27, mem = 4, phy = 0, p = 1, b = 1)
> No VESA compatible graphics!

Which is actually the case, as we don't support window mode, we need a 
linear frame buffer.
Now we could add support for this, but I don't think it's worth it.

Bye,
   Axel.

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