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

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote:
> 
> 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.

Are you completely sure Xorg is using VESA ?  By default, it picks a
chipset-specific card whenever possible.

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