Re: gfxmode=auto. how is resolution calculated?

[Carrot Cruncher]

graphics is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M.

On 20 March 2013 12:44, Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Carrot Cruncher
<address@hidden> wrote:
> thanks for confirming. i didn't think the info from the edid-decode command
> looked quite right. i just thought it was odd because tools like xrandr
> successfully detect and use the highest resolution successfully.
>

And your video card?

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> On 20 March 2013 11:38, Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Carrot Cruncher
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > with gfxmode set to auto, the default resolution used is 640x480x32.
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>> This means grub cannot get EDID information from BIOS. This is also
>> confirmed by the fact that your videoinfo lacks EDID information.
>>
>> I do not think there is anything that can be done here, unless someone
>> can debug BIOS interaction.
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