Re: [Mactel-linux-users] EFI booting

[Brandon K. <bdk...@gm...>]

Thanks, I will give this a try. (Is your video card nvidia? I don't
think it should matter; however, I read somewhere that grub2 attempts to
initialize video bios and figured that it was specific to intel as
opposed to nvidia). 


On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 17:22 -0700, Justin Mattock wrote:
> 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;
>