On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:36:24AM +0800, Dawud, Muhd wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to ask a quick question on framebuffer implementations if you guys
> don't mind......
>
> In recent releases of the red-hat linux (I'm using 7.0) the bootloader is a
> graphical interface, I'm wondering how I could program something like this.
> My current machine is a 166MHZ Pentium with only VESA 1.2 support so the
> best framebuffer support that I have is VGA16. Furthermore I can only come
> up with ugly looking graphics in 16 colors which can only start after I've
> logged into the system. The lilo GUI is excellent compared to my lousy GUI,
You can use the patch at http://www.kyuzz.org/antirez/vga256fb.html
to get 360x480 in 256 colors without VESA 2.0 support.
It seems there are different patches to add this support in the
linux framebuffer, but I don't know where to get they.
> does anyone know how lilo does this... I presume that it is also a
> framebuffer dump but how does it get 256K resolution. I would really like to
> write some kind of personalized GUI to replace the red-hat lilo prompt but I
> am at a loss on how to proceed... Can anyone out there kindly offer me some
> pointers ???
I don't know how this works. Maybe all the graphic support is implemented
in the boot loader itself. I can't see how a boot loader can directly
use the linux framebuffer abstraction: the boot loader itself contains
portion of the linux kernel? Is it a "linux booting linux" hack?
> So in essence my problem is two-fold, I don't know how to load my customized
> GUI to replace lilo's gui and I don't know how to code a nicer GUI using
> framebuffers. Again I don't know if I'm attacking the problem in a wrong
> way. Any help would be very much appreciated.
You should provide more information about this boot loader.
regards,
Salvatore
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