Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 00:23:46 +0100 From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net> To: Alex <ak@freenet.co.uk> Cc: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>, Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware on FreeBSD (Full Screen) Message-ID: <19991208002346.58069@ns.int.ftf.net> In-Reply-To: <384D50DC.9665019E@freenet.co.uk>; from Alex on Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 06:24:28PM %2B0000 References: <199911271743.MAA01184@mindspring.com> <384C1D00.387104FB@heartland.ab.ca> <384C1E81.E251A1C6@heartland.ab.ca> <19991206215459.B456@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <384D50DC.9665019E@freenet.co.uk>
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Alex writes: > "Vladimir N. Silyaev" wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:37:21PM -0700, Darren Wiebe wrote: > > > I think that I have found part of the problem. I should be running > > > XFree86 3.3.4 or higher. I am going to upgrade to 3.3.5 which is the > > > current port. Should that be added to the dependancies?? > > It's not so easy. The first of all, I don't know about supporting DGA > > in the X client libraries from RedHat 5.2 (currently linux_base port > > based on this version of RedHat), but Marcel have new port. > > Next, as I know, our port system doesn't have version dependencies, > > now port system simple checking for the existence library, or executable. > > > DGA is supported under emulation (and works). However, it's probably > not all that's required to make full-screen modes work. VMWare seems > to require only 2 device symlinks: tty0 and tty7. tty0 goes to > /dev/ttyv0, and tty7 should go to whichever ttyv you're running X on > (e.g. for me it's ttyv6 and not ttyv7). When I start VMWare it briefly > goes full-screen, saying "Testing display... please wait", and then > drops back into standard window mode, complaining about not being able > to use tty8 for full-screen VGA mode. When I gave it an extra tty to > play with (symlinking tty8 to ttyv1), it failed to set the right mode, > corrupting the screen and wedging the system. Two messages appeared in > /var/log/messages: Actually, mine went full screen... and made it go black :-| I had to switch to ttyv0 and kill the X server (but vmware + X was running -- just black screen). -- [ In 24 days, 1 hours and 36 minutes, this line might fail Y2K compliance ] y2k -- an occasion to remember how far we haven't come in the last 2000 years. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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