Re: [Mactel-linux-users] EFI booting

[Justin M. <jus...@gm...>]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Brandon Koepke <bdk...@gm...> wrote:
> I have repeatedly booted a Macbook Pro 3,1 in pure efi mode with very
> few problems.
>
> I used grub-efi and compiled it from latest svn using
> ./configure --with-platform=efi --target=x86_64.
> Without refit.
>
> The only big thing that does not work yet is the framebuffer,
> so right now I have no text output until the system is booted.
>
> I have tried using FB_EFI (which I had expected to not work because it
> is a GOP driver),
> imacfb, vesafb and uvesafb.
>
> Both vesafb and efifb display text, however I get three columns of
> text that is all very small print that is unreadable.
>
> Has anyone else experienced the same problem, or am I in
> uncharted territory because it is x86_64 and an nvidia graphics card?
>
> I also cannot use pommed because it uses bios calls to change the
> screen brightness. (Everything but brightness works fine, even
> applesmc).
> I also tried a kernel backlight driver, macbook_mbp.c however this was
> just ripped off from pommed anyways.
>
> Any word on this would be a great help.
>
> Brandon Koepke.
>
>
>
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Over here I'm using grub2
not sure if there similar, anyways
try vga=790 as a boot option, and try compiling the
fb module "in the kernel"(say "Y") rather than a "module" ("M")
the text is funky when compiling fbcon as a "M", as opposed to
having it built in.

regards;

-- 
Justin P. Mattock