Bug#465398: grub-pc: doesn't support 1280x800 on a widescreen laptop

[Paul Wise]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20080210-1
Severity: minor

My laptop's LCD supports 1280x800 in Xorg, but grub-pc's vbeinfo command
doesn't detect it and setting gfxmode to it does not work. This means I
need to prepare a special horizontally compressed image for the
background splash image to not look stretched out with 1024x768 mode.

-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 / reiserfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda1 /dev/.static/dev reiserfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/sda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
set root=(hd0,1)
if font (hd0,1)/usr/share/grub/unicode.pff ; then
set gfxmode=1024x768
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  terminal gfxterm
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod png
if background_image (hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.png ; then
  set color_normal=black/black
  set color_highlight=magenta/black
else
  set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
  set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###
### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-1-686" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=792
	initrd	(hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-1-686 (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro single vga=792
	initrd	(hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.23-1-686" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23-1-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=792
	initrd	(hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.23-1-686 (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23-1-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro single vga=792
	initrd	(hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.22-3-686" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=792
	initrd	(hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.22-3-686 (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro single vga=792
	initrd	(hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86 ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/memtest86.bin
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86 ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/boot/memtest86+.bin
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  base-files                4.0.2          Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.19         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                     2.7-6          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  liblzo2-2                 2.02-3         data compression library
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080203-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- debconf information:

* grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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