resolution 1366x768

[Bozhan Boiadzhiev]

      Hi, 
i have a laptop with resolution 1366x768 and SeaBIOS doesn't have such.
Please, if it is possible, someone who can, to add this resolution to vgasrc/bochsvga.c.
According to this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution,
resolution 1366x768 is used by 26% from Web users,
based on stats from http://gs.statcounter.com/#resolution-ww-monthly-201401-201404-bar

Thanks

Божан

[Michael Tokarev]

      14.11.2014 15:24, Bozhan Boiadzhiev wrote:
  Hi, 
 i have a laptop with resolution 1366x768 and SeaBIOS doesn't have such.
 Please, if it is possible, someone who can, to add this resolution to vgasrc/bochsvga.c.
It is not sufficient to just add that resolution to seabios list.
I mean, it is not only bios which should have support for it.

For example, qemu/kvm will not work with it.

The problem here is that 1366 is not dividable by 8.  In other words,
each line on the screen does not end at a byte boundary in memory.
This is a very weird resolution.  Most devices which actually implement
it use 1368x768 and just crop two vertical one-pixe-wide lines on both
sides.

  According to this page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution,
 resolution 1366x768 is used by 26% from Web users,
 based on stats from http://gs.statcounter.com/#resolution-ww-monthly-201401-201404-bar
This does not look real.  Being a very weird resolution, with very
few devices available in stores all around, it can't be real.

But even if it _is_ real, it does not make this resolution any
less weird.

Thanks,

/mjt, who added it once to seabios (not a rocket science to add 3 lines
      to vgasrc.c) just to discover that qemu crashes once (windows)
      guest tries to switch to it

[Laszlo Ersek]

      On 11/17/14 13:07, Michael Tokarev wrote:
  14.11.2014 15:24, Bozhan Boiadzhiev wrote:
  Hi, 
 i have a laptop with resolution 1366x768 and SeaBIOS doesn't have such.
 Please, if it is possible, someone who can, to add this resolution to vgasrc/bochsvga.c.
 
 It is not sufficient to just add that resolution to seabios list.
 I mean, it is not only bios which should have support for it.
 
 For example, qemu/kvm will not work with it.
 
 The problem here is that 1366 is not dividable by 8.  In other words,
 each line on the screen does not end at a byte boundary in memory.
 This is a very weird resolution.  Most devices which actually implement
 it use 1368x768 and just crop two vertical one-pixe-wide lines on both
 sides.
 
  According to this page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution,
 resolution 1366x768 is used by 26% from Web users,
 based on stats from http://gs.statcounter.com/#resolution-ww-monthly-201401-201404-bar
 
 This does not look real.  Being a very weird resolution, with very
 few devices available in stores all around, it can't be real.
Many laptops have it as their native display resolution, for example the
Lenovo IdeaPad B590:

http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/lenovo/b-series/b590/

(It's an exceedingly annoying resolution, granted; but it *is* real.)

  But even if it _is_ real, it does not make this
resolution any
 less weird.
 
 Thanks,
 
 /mjt, who added it once to seabios (not a rocket science to add 3 lines
       to vgasrc.c) just to discover that qemu crashes once (windows)
       guest tries to switch to it
That was a security bug then. Let's hope that the fix for CVE-2014-3615
covered that case too.

Thanks
Laszlo