enabling high res Chameleon & boot graphics? (intel hd 3000)

[Ramap]

Hi, I'm hoping there is some magic way to get chameleon/chimera to load with higher than 1024x768 on my dell Vostro 3550 (intel hd 3000). Once booted into Lion I have full resolution and it works great... but I do get tired of the ugly squashed apple on boot. It would be nice to have a 1366x768 screen.

I have tried the usual, adding GraphicsMode string in boot.plist, and edting the default theme.plist, but it still doesnt work.

When I select 'video modes' from the dropdown list on the Chameleon GUI, there are a whole bunch of modes, but 80% of them are just 0x0x0, and only the last few are 800x600, 640x480, and 1024x768. Does this mean thats all i can use? maybe mroe can be accessed somehow? Is it a limitation with the video card/laptop bios tables? or is it fixable in Chameleon?

Thanks.

 

[Ramap]

In the chameleon help files it states that these modes are the ones available in the bios, so I guess I'm SOL if there are a bunch of modes that are 0x0x0 in there? should I hit up dell from some more bios's? like that will ever happen...

 

[james_is_15_88]

Hi, I'm hoping there is some magic way to get chameleon/chimera to load with higher than 1024x768 on my dell Vostro 3550 (intel hd 3000). Once booted into Lion I have full resolution and it works great... but I do get tired of the ugly squashed apple on boot. It would be nice to have a 1366x768 screen.

I have tried the usual, adding GraphicsMode string in boot.plist, and edting the default theme.plist, but it still doesnt work.

When I select 'video modes' from the dropdown list on the Chameleon GUI, there are a whole bunch of modes, but 80% of them are just 0x0x0, and only the last few are 800x600, 640x480, and 1024x768. Does this mean thats all i can use? maybe mroe can be accessed somehow? Is it a limitation with the video card/laptop bios tables? or is it fixable in Chameleon?

Thanks.

You could set

<key>Legacy Logo</key>
<string>No</string>

in your org.chameleon.boot.plist to get the better looking apple logo, but thats about it...

 

[Dewitts]

Actually It SHOULD be more simple than you think!!! in multibeast under system definitions choose MACBOOK PRO 8,1 that's how it got recognised with full QE/CI on our machine

 

[Ramap]

yeah i have 8,1 and full resolution once I'm inside the Lion GUI... but its the boot prompt I would like to change. Any bios modders out there want to have a go?

 

[Usal]

Yeah, I asked the same question here... viewtopic.php?f=170&t=33612

I still have not found a way.