Re: [Xen-devel] help adding extended text modes in Hypervisor

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:10:22AM +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > I am trying to get the hypervisor to run in an extended text modes,
> > specifically 132x44 text mode. I don't really know much about
> > setting video modes so there may be something inherently broken with
> > my approach. I have done some Linux device drivers programming and a
> > little assembler but am probably out of my depth. I have tried
> > putting the correct VGA register settings (taken after booting into
> > 132x44 text mode vga=0x133 in regular Linux) for this mode into
> 
> 
> Feel free to say 'yes', but is it really worth the effort? 
> 
> When dom0 takes over the VGA console (which is the default mode
> of operation) you can arrange to put it into whatever mode you
> like; you just won't get the initial boot messages from Xen in
> the extended text mode.

Is there something like dmesg for xen?

Regards,
Luciano Rocha


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