Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 696485] [NEW] BeOS5 personal edition only displays in Black and White

[Natalia Portillo]

Hi,

El 02/01/2011, a las 22:28, Andreas Färber escribió:

> Am 02.01.2011 um 19:27 schrieb François Revol:
> 
>>> I can only get the display on BeOS/x86 Personal Edition 5 to be in  
>>> black
>>> and white.  I've tried all the -vga options.
>>> 
>>> wget http://www.bebits.com/bob/12373/BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
>>> mkdir foo
>>> cd foo
>>> tar zxvf ../BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
>>> qemu -cdrom image.be -fda floppy.img -boot a -vga std
>> 
>> This is because it doesn't have any driver that supports the  
>> emulated hardware, so it just switches to 16 color VGA and draws  
>> from an 8bit framebuffer to the VGA bank with a grey palette.
>> 
>> I thought the Cirrus card could be supported but it probably doesn't  
>> emulate a matching chip.
>> 
>> It might be possible to try extra drivers from http://bebits.com/browse/23
>> though it'd be better to have a working setup from the official image.
>> 
>> Later versions and Haiku use VESA though, so are unaffected and  
>> should work with -vga std.
> 
> Hmm, I have BeOS 5 PE working with qemu -hda ... (i.e., default VGA  
> options).
> And I'm pretty sure I didn't install special drivers.
> 
> /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers/vesa has:
> 
> mode 800 600 16

Are you sure it's PE and not Dano?

> Andreas
> 
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696485
> 
> Title:
>  BeOS5 personal edition only displays in Black and White
> 
> Status in QEMU:
>  Invalid
> 
> Bug description:
>  I can only get the display on BeOS/x86 Personal Edition 5 to be in black and 
> white.  I've tried all the -vga options.
> 
> wget http://www.bebits.com/bob/12373/BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
> mkdir foo
> cd foo
> tar zxvf ../BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
> qemu -cdrom image.be -fda floppy.img -boot a -vga std
> 
> 
>