[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #10570: Native video mode with VESA through vesa bios live patching

  • From: "Haiku" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:44:24 -0000

#10570: Native video mode with VESA through vesa bios live patching
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   Reporter:  pulkomandy             |      Owner:  nobody
       Type:  enhancement            |     Status:  new
   Priority:  normal                 |  Milestone:  Unscheduled
  Component:  Drivers/Graphics/VESA  |    Version:  R1/Development
 Resolution:                         |   Keywords:  PatchVBios
 Blocked By:                         |   Blocking:
Has a Patch:  0                      |   Platform:  All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):

 Note that the support is for specific BIOS kinds (one has to know how the
 resolutions are encoded to find what looks reasonably like modelines in
 the BIOS), I guess that driver only supports old nVidia cards. So the code
 in Clover is probably more useful these days?

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