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

[François Revol]

Le 2 janv. 2011 à 23:28, Andreas Färber a écrit :

> 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

Oh, then you just have to force it.

Indeed, the VESA driver is there, but you must force it by adding the config 
file.
And it doesn't support mode changes.

François.