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+1 Still unusable on Wayland.
It might also be helpful to know that when you boot the Debian installer, regardless of whether it's in graphical or text mode, the message `Undefined video mode number: 314`...
Alpine Linux CD seems to display absolutely nothing on the VESA framebuffer (not sure if it's supposed to though), while Debian displays the installer in QEMU but not on the...
On the Apple TV port, I don't properly read the VGA arbitration code and just hardcoded the NVIDIA card's bus/dev/func in hopes of taking a shortcut and avoiding a PCI...
> > On the Apple TV port, I don't properly read the VGA arbitration code and just hardcoded the NVIDIA card's bus/dev/func in hopes of taking a shortcut and avoiding...
If NTLDR (or anything else) is using the standard VGA I/O ports or memory addresses instead of reading that address from VESA, then there’s likely no chance of centering the...
> Seems like using the existing legacy VGA ROM is being worked on currently though. I experimented with it a bit on the Apple TV without success, but this is...
Using the stock VGA BIOS might fix modesetting on XP and other OSes it doesn’t work correctly on.
Some OSes don’t seem to like SeaBIOS VGA, for example the XP installer just freezes (If I had to guess, it tries to set an unsupported text mode).
> Ah, so it's patent-encumbered? I guess that's another roadblock, besides firmware being locked down preventing the addition of SMM modules… @PluMGMK Seems the patent expired. I doubt it's under...