#10570: Native video mode with VESA through vesa bios live patching ------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: pulkomandy | Owner: nobody Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled Component: Drivers/Graphics | Version: R1/Development Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0 Platform: All | ------------------------------+------------------------------ This is a trick used in the Clover bootloader to get native video modes from VESA. The idea is to patch the VESA BIOS (which is shadowed in RAM) and replace the video mode tables with the EDID data. This gets native video mode on ATI, NVidia and Intel cards, without the need to write an actual driver. Their Vesa BIOS is smart enough to accept any resolution in the table. http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,1227.0.html?PHPSESSID=a1ogsvn9b24tmal0sjt4svonnein4kkg http://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/code/HEAD/tree/BiosVideo/ -- Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/10570> Haiku <https://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.