Hi,
- { 0x18d, { MM_DIRECT, 1920, 1080, 16, 8, 16, SEG_GRAPH } },
- { 0x18e, { MM_DIRECT, 1920, 1080, 24, 8, 16, SEG_GRAPH } },
- { 0x18f, { MM_DIRECT, 1920, 1080, 32, 8, 16, SEG_GRAPH } },
I'm not sure I understand how list of modes is maintained/used in seavgabios. The above patch at least allows one of the very common modes to be selected in windows clients.
Just get-send-email a proper patch to the seabios list.
And while at it, there's another bugreport against vgabios package in Debian, see http://bugs.debian.org/685097 . It looks like windows8 isn't happy with vgabios-provided modes and does not let to change resolution at all, sticking at 1024x768. That bugreport points to a patchset, http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-05/msg00260.html (this is just one patch from it), which has been applied to xen copy of vgabios to solve exactly this issue with win8, and reportedly it works there. It looks like something similar should be done in seavgabios too, since with it, win8 guest is also stuck at the same resolution.
Hmm, last time I tried resolution switching in win8 worked just fine with seavgabios. Can you double-check?
cheers, Gerd