From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 7 22:10:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F0E16A403 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 22:10:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahnke@sonatabio.com) Received: from smtp.wizwire.com (smtp.wizwire.com [209.218.100.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76F2813C46E for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 22:10:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahnke@sonatabio.com) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (207-104-43-212.starstream.net [207.104.43.212]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.wizwire.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l47M9ecd027885; Mon, 7 May 2007 15:09:41 -0700 From: Frank Jahnke To: Gore Jarold In-Reply-To: <476657.48564.qm@web63011.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <476657.48564.qm@web63011.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Sonata Biosciences, Inc. Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 15:06:26 -0700 Message-Id: <1178575586.938.141.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-WizWire-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-WizWire-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: jahnke@sonatabio.com Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware3 on FreeBSD 6.2 - minor (?) svga problem ... more #2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jahnke@sonatabio.com List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 22:10:24 -0000 On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 15:04 -0700, Gore Jarold wrote: > > I have a 1920x1200 xorg screen (it takes up one entire > 1920x1200 physical monitor), and in that screen I have > created a 960x600 window, and it is in that window > that I run the command 'vmware'. > Again, this does not matter. > I don't know where to set the resolution of the vmware > device driver ... vmware is not mentioned anywhere in > my xorg.conf, and I don't see anywhere in the VM > preferences to set anything to do with resolution > (other than to pick the best resolution for full > screen, which is not applicable, since I do not run > full-screen...) Remember this is a virtual machine. You set it up, and how your underlying system is configured really does not matter. > No - I hit "power on", it gives me that SVGA error, > and then does nothing. > > Thanks for your help. OK -- my explanation, while correct, is not what is causing your issues. You can set the vmware resolution by running the tools (or by diddling with a config file). Incidentally, how do you have your xbase set? I've not seen this error before. Let me get back to you shortly. Frank