Bug 234142 - sax2: Improve framebuffer configuration
Summary: sax2: Improve framebuffer configuration
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
: 263845 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 10.3
Classification: openSUSE
Component: SaX2 (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Olaf Dabrunz
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Reported: 2007-01-12 17:17 UTC by Stefan Dirsch
Modified: 2007-08-13 08:17 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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menu.lst.orig (803 bytes, text/plain)
2007-02-28 11:07 UTC, Marcus Schaefer 		Details
menu.lst (745 bytes, text/plain)
2007-02-28 11:08 UTC, Marcus Schaefer 		Details
y2log (110.31 KB, text/plain)
2007-02-28 11:08 UTC, Marcus Schaefer 		Details
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Description Stefan Dirsch 2007-01-12 17:17:54 UTC 
Due to more and more graphics cards, e.g. ATI > X1000, which are no longer supported by any open source native driver, we should provide a better framebuffer configuration, which also provides different resolutions/color depths to chose. For this SaX2 needs to write a meta file with the appropriate
vga=0xabc kernel boot option, which then can be read by the yast bootloader
module. So this bugreport is also related to Bug #220368.
Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2007-01-15 10:20:53 UTC 
As requested by aj: FATE #301920
Comment 2 Marcus Schaefer 2007-01-19 12:47:53 UTC 
Olaf, as maintainer of the yast bootloader could you explain what
exactly needs to be done to:

a) use the bootloader module in ycp to setup the vga Parameter
b) call the bootloader module from the shell to setup the vga Parameter

I played a bit with call yast2 bootloader set ... but my tests weren't
successful

Thanks
Comment 3 Marcus Schaefer 2007-01-24 13:36:52 UTC 
Stefan, Matthias... according to bug: #238167 this issue cannot be fixed
right now
Comment 5 Marcus Schaefer 2007-01-31 11:24:13 UTC 
Olaf if I call:

   yast2 bootloader print section="SUSE LINUX 10.2" option=append

I got:

   Value: selinux=0 resume=/dev/hda2  splash=silent acpi=off apm=off showopts

Everything is there except "vga" I see no possibility to set the vga
parameter. Your suggestion to rewrite the complete section sounds a bit
unpractical and as I said printing the section doesn't show the vga option
though it exists

If I call:

   yast2 bootloader set section="SUSE LINUX 10.2" option=append value=vga=0x222

I got __two__ vga entries in the menu.lst

Something is really broken :-)
Could you fix this 

Thanks
Comment 6 Marcus Schaefer 2007-02-09 14:49:37 UTC 
Olaf what's the status here ?
Comment 7 Marcus Schaefer 2007-02-28 11:05:42 UTC 
I will attach the requested information from the following workflow

   rm -f /var/log/YaST2/y2log
   cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst.orig
   yast2 bootloader set section="SUSE LINUX 10.2" option=append value=vga=0x222

attached you will find:

  menu.lst.orig
  menu.lst
  /var/log/YaST2/y2log

Thanks
Comment 8 Marcus Schaefer 2007-02-28 11:07:56 UTC 
Created attachment 121510 [details]
menu.lst.orig
Comment 9 Marcus Schaefer 2007-02-28 11:08:33 UTC 
Created attachment 121511 [details]
menu.lst
Comment 10 Marcus Schaefer 2007-02-28 11:08:58 UTC 
Created attachment 121512 [details]
y2log

y2log from the above yast2 call
Comment 11 Stefan Dirsch 2007-04-03 12:26:48 UTC 
I wonder if this isn't also related to perl-Bootloader. Adding Alexander therefore.
Comment 12 Stefan Dirsch 2007-04-12 16:48:02 UTC 
*** Bug 263845 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Stefan Dirsch 2007-05-11 06:42:34 UTC 
JFYI
Comment 14 Stefan Dirsch 2007-08-12 11:30:28 UTC 
Meanwhile Marcus implemented this in SaX2 differently.