Display problems with qemu sometimes

[jackburton]

Every now and then (very often, actually, I get a garbled display when booting haiku in qemu). Qemu 0.11.0

[bonefish]

Your host system is Linux I suppose? Is this a new problem?

I can easily reproduce a similar screen with OpenSuse 11.2 and qemu 0.11.0, when resizing the qemu window manually. Changing the resolution via the Screen preflet from the standard 1024x768 to 1280x1024 more often than not also does the trick. While the latter might suggest an issue with Haiku's mode switching, the former implies a qemu bug IMO.

I'm pretty sure that at least the qemu window resizing problem did already exist when I started using qemu under OpenSuse 11.2 four months ago.

[jackburton]

Replying to bonefish:

Your host system is Linux I suppose? Is this a new problem?

Ubuntu 9.10. I'd say it's a new problem, yes. But since I haven't tried haiku on qemu in a while, I can't say how much time it has been a problem.

I can easily reproduce a similar screen with OpenSuse 11.2 and qemu 0.11.0, when resizing the qemu window manually. Changing the resolution via the Screen preflet from the standard 1024x768 to 1280x1024 more often than not also does the trick. While the latter might suggest an issue with Haiku's mode switching, the former implies a qemu bug IMO.

Yeah, I thought that too. I'd keep this open, though, at least until the bug is recognized within qemu, or I can find an already opened ticket there.

[andreasf]

Is this still around with 0.12.x? SDL or VNC?

[jackburton]

I haven't seen it anymore since I'm using qemu 0.12.3