[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-series-laptops/ideapad-y510p-notebook/documents/PD028142?tabName=ProductParts

Thanks

Божан








 >-------- Оригинално писмо --------

 >От: Michael Tokarev mjt at tls.msk.ru

 >Относно: Re: [SeaBIOS] resolution 1366x768

 >До: Bozhan Boiadzhiev <bozhan at abv.bg>, seabios at seabios.org

 >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