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bug #65922: I945/GM45 ThinkPads: SeaBIOS: incomplete graphics support

Submitter:  GNUtoo <gnutoo>
Submitted:  Wed 26 Jun 2024 02:03:20 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Usability issue Priority:  1 - Later
Item Group:  None Status:  Confirmed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gnuboot-maintainers
Open/Closed:  Open Computer:  None
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Wed 26 Jun 2024 02:03:20 PM UTC, original submission:  

If we install a SeaBIOS image on a ThinkPad, the GRUB provided by the distributions usually default to gfxterm which results in a black screen during boot.

If this is fixed, SeaBIOS could work for most situations and could become the default image.

A way to fix could be to make the grub gfxterm somehow detect that we only support CGA and somehow use the console terminal instead of gfxterm, and wait until all the distributions update their GRUB version.

Another way could be to implement enough of the VGA standard to make GRUB work.

GNUtoo <gnutoo>
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    2024-10-03 gnutoo Priority5 - Normal 1 - Later
    2024-09-08 neox Assigned toNone gnuboot-maintainers
    2024-06-26 gnutoo CategoryNone Usability issue
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