On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:51:47 -0500 Kevin O'Connor kevin@koconnor.net wrote:
There's also no cursor, which can probably be enhanced as well.
Yes, I tested more, with seabios directly as a payload, for giving my old Lenovo x60 to someone and spending less time right now to explain him how to configure well grub to be used as a payload. And I saw the cursor issue, that's the most annoying issue because the grub( ran in BIOS platform mode ) that is loaded from disk doesn't show a cursor when editing the menu contents with 'e'
I'm surprised you need ps2-keyboard-spinup if you chain load seabios.
I'll retest soon.
--- a/vgasrc/cbvga.c +++ b/vgasrc/cbvga.c @@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ cbvga_setup(void) SET_VGA(CBmode.height, ylines); SET_VGA(CBmode.depth, bpp);
- // Setup BDA
- vga_set_mode(CBMODENUM, MF_NOCLEARMEM);
// Setup BDA and clear screen.
vga_set_mode(CBMODENUM, 0);
return 0;
}
Thanks a lot, I'll try that as soon as possible, but it's like 23:30 now here, so it'll be for another day.
Denis.