[Spice-devel] set initial depth

[bwellsnc]

I figured it out.  The problem is in the /etc/default/grub configuration
file for Ubuntu.  You have to uncomment "GRUB_TERMINAL=console".  Once I did
that, it worked perfectly.


On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 18:15 -0400, bwellsnc wrote:
> > I am running 0.6.0 and I have a quick question.  Is there a way to set
> > the initial depth.  The -g doesn't seem to work.  I am trying to run
> > Ubuntu 10.04 and it will not boot because it doesn't seem to know the
> > initial screen resolution.  It I am able to set it to 640x480, then
> > this should work or if I know what spice defaults to then I can set
> > that in the grub configuration.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by initial depth. The guest OS will boot and
> see the hardware as a generic vga compatible card, and use whatever
> resolutions it would have used on any other vga card. Then when the qxl
> driver is loaded it can support more resolutions and depths, but which
> ones are used depends on how the guest os/drivers are setup.
>
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