hrev52910 disables nVidia VESA scaling - regression

[smallstepforman]

hrev52910 disabled nVidia VESA scaling, and the result is arguably not better than the previous version. Using Haiku in a postage stamp window cannot be better than running it full screen at a miscaled resolution, expecially on modern Hi-DPI displays. See attachment. One could argue that the previous version was many times better.

[smallstepforman]

Haiku postage stamp

[smallstepforman]

Haiku postage stamp

[waddlesplash]

Indeed, it seems this is worse.

Probably the commit should just be reverted then. mmu_man will have to just implement VESA BIOS patching to get real modesetting if he wants it... :P

[mmu_man]

No need for two photos…

Well, Yes and now, here with scaling it distorts the aspect ratio and it's really ugly. Without it I do have a full height display but with black borders on the side, and it's definitely better. I suppose it depends on the age of your VESA BIOS.

I tried various arguments to the call, some are supposed to scale but keep the aspect ratio, but it didn't work for me.

I could make it an option I suppose.

[waddlesplash]

I don't think we can use options at this stage. Probably we should just implement VESA BIOS livepatching.

[mmu_man]

Well, the video code in the bootloader does check the vesa settings for the video mode, so it should be possible.

[mmu_man]

As of hrev53109 it is now an option in the vesa settings file.

[mmu_man]

So I guess we can close it now.

[nielx]

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