From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Dec 12 14:49:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9483E37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:49:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail102.csoft.net (lilly.csoft.net [63.111.22.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBD6043EA9 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:49:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zith@lilly.csoft.net) Received: (qmail 12002 invoked by uid 1876); 12 Dec 2002 22:55:54 -0000 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:55:54 -0500 From: Nick Slager To: Brent J Miller Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare and FreeBSD question Message-ID: <20021212225554.GA10803@zith.net> References: <4B233D7D-0E0B-11D7-9506-0003936728E6@ebrent.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B233D7D-0E0B-11D7-9506-0003936728E6@ebrent.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Brent J Miller (brent@ebrent.org): > Nick, I saw from the emulation list archive you have vmware running in a > resolution higher than 640x480. I installed vmware and windows 2000, > then installed the vmware tools. This automatically changed my display > settings to 32 bit color, but left the resolution in 640x480. I went to > the settings tab and saw it would allow me to change the resolution to > several settings up to my display's maximum supported resolution; I > chose 1024x768 and it went to the resolution but hosed things up so that > my vmware screen went blank and whenever I move the cursor, it repaints > the screen behind it such that the entire desktop is shifted to the > right like half a screen. I rebooted vmware, thinking windows was just > freaking out because it's windows, but it is still doing it. Have you > (or anyone) ever seen anything like this, and can you tell me how to fix > it? Thanks very much.... Hi Brent, No, I haven't encountered behaviour like this before. One thing you may want to double check is your X display server resolution and color depth. At a guess, running VMware at 32bit color depth when your X server is set for 16bit could cause various issues. For reference, my X display runs at 1400x1050x16bpp. My Windows VM runs at 1024x768x16bpp. Nick -- "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." -- Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message