Re: [SeaBIOS] resolution 1366x768

[Bozhan Boiadzhiev]

According to Google

https://www.google.bg/?#q=most+popular+screen+resolution

most popular screen resolution since 2010 is 1366x786
despite 1366 is not dividable to 8.
And my laptop has it 
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/ideapad-y-seri...

Thanks

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> -------- Оригинално писмо --------
> От: Michael Tokarev [e-mail]
> Относно: Re: [SeaBIOS] resolution 1366x768
> До: Bozhan Boiadzhiev , [e-mail]
> Изпратено на: Понеделник, 2014, Ноември 17 14:07:15 EET
> 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

resolution 1366x768

[Michael Tokarev]

17.11.2014 17:29, Bozhan Boiadzhiev wrpte:
> According to Google [..] most popular screen resolution since 2010 is 1366x786

[]

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

(I didn't say the _resolution_ isn't real - I know it is real and I know
it is in use.  I was questioning the reality of the popularity part).

But note again: despite its popularity, it isn't sufficient to add it
to seabios, other parts of the picture should support it too, and we
have a widely used piece of software (qemu) which does not support it
currently and is known to crash if someone tries to use this resolution.
_That_ should be fixed first, and it is not a task of adding 3 simple
lines to resolutions table, it is a bit more than that.

Thanks,

/mjt