[haiku-development] Re: Intel video issue since new Boot Splash

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:48:53 +0100 CET

Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > Usually, the code used to always set 16 bit modes, until Stippi
> > changed
> > that recently. Eventually, it now chooses higher resolution with
> > lower
> > possible colors as default - which would explain the problem (and
> > also
> > that of those high resolutions).
> > In the debug output might be a hint as to what goes wrong, I guess.
> > If
> > not enabling TRACE_VIDEO (src/system/boot/platform/bios_ia32/
> > video.cpp,
> > line 29) should help.
> As far as I was aware, the code that I changed had nothing to do with
> the
> resolution. It looped over the available color spaces for a fixed
> given
> resolution, and broke out of the loop when it had a 16 bit mode. But
> the
> loop was such that it would find the highest bitdepth for the given
> resolution without the check for 16 bit. I removed the 16 bit
> preference,
> and all that this should change is that it prefers the highest bit
> depth
> for the same resolution which would otherwise be run in 16 bit. Maybe
> I am
> overlooking something, but it looked pretty straight forward to me.

You don't, I just got the wrong idea :-)
I've changed the EDID mode setup a bit in r24609, maybe this helps,
Urias? What resolution was chosen before, and what resolution is chosen
now?

Bye,
   Axel.


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