BeOS5 personal edition only displays in Black and White

[Nigel Horne]

I can only get the display on BeOS/x86 Personal Edition 5 to be in black and white. I've tried all the -vga options.

wget http://www.bebits.com/bob/12373/BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
mkdir foo
cd foo
tar zxvf ../BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
qemu -cdrom image.be -fda floppy.img -boot a -vga std

[Natalia Portillo (claunia)]

This is not a QEMU bug.

You need to get a correct driver for the emulated hardware.

There is a Cirrus driver as well as a VESA driver in BeBits that will work with absolutely all emulated hardware.

[Andreas Färber (afaerber)]

Am 02.01.2011 um 19:27 schrieb François Revol:

>> I can only get the display on BeOS/x86 Personal Edition 5 to be in
>> black
>> and white. I've tried all the -vga options.
>>
>> wget http://www.bebits.com/bob/12373/BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
>> mkdir foo
>> cd foo
>> tar zxvf ../BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
>> qemu -cdrom image.be -fda floppy.img -boot a -vga std
>
> This is because it doesn't have any driver that supports the
> emulated hardware, so it just switches to 16 color VGA and draws
> from an 8bit framebuffer to the VGA bank with a grey palette.
>
> I thought the Cirrus card could be supported but it probably doesn't
> emulate a matching chip.
>
> It might be possible to try extra drivers from http://bebits.com/browse/23
> though it'd be better to have a working setup from the official image.
>
> Later versions and Haiku use VESA though, so are unaffected and
> should work with -vga std.

Hmm, I have BeOS 5 PE working with qemu -hda ... (i.e., default VGA
options).
And I'm pretty sure I didn't install special drivers.

/boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers/vesa has:

mode 800 600 16

Andreas

[Natalia Portillo (claunia)]

Hi,

El 02/01/2011, a las 22:28, Andreas Färber escribió:

> Am 02.01.2011 um 19:27 schrieb François Revol:
>
>>> I can only get the display on BeOS/x86 Personal Edition 5 to be in
>>> black
>>> and white. I've tried all the -vga options.
>>>
>>> wget http://www.bebits.com/bob/12373/BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
>>> mkdir foo
>>> cd foo
>>> tar zxvf ../BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
>>> qemu -cdrom image.be -fda floppy.img -boot a -vga std
>>
>> This is because it doesn't have any driver that supports the
>> emulated hardware, so it just switches to 16 color VGA and draws
>> from an 8bit framebuffer to the VGA bank with a grey palette.
>>
>> I thought the Cirrus card could be supported but it probably doesn't
>> emulate a matching chip.
>>
>> It might be possible to try extra drivers from http://bebits.com/browse/23
>> though it'd be better to have a working setup from the official image.
>>
>> Later versions and Haiku use VESA though, so are unaffected and
>> should work with -vga std.
>
> Hmm, I have BeOS 5 PE working with qemu -hda ... (i.e., default VGA
> options).
> And I'm pretty sure I didn't install special drivers.
>
> /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers/vesa has:
>
> mode 800 600 16

Are you sure it's PE and not Dano?

> Andreas
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696485
>
> Title:
> BeOS5 personal edition only displays in Black and White
>
> Status in QEMU:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> I can only get the display on BeOS/x86 Personal Edition 5 to be in black and white. I've tried all the -vga options.
>
> wget http://www.bebits.com/bob/12373/BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
> mkdir foo
> cd foo
> tar zxvf ../BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
> qemu -cdrom image.be -fda floppy.img -boot a -vga std
>
>
>

[Nigel Horne (njh-bandsman)]

I went to Bebits.com and typed 'cirrus' into the search box, but it didn't match a driver. Please could you let me know where you found it? Thanks.