From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 14 18:04:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F0EA16A41F for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:04:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from teoheras@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E70643D5A for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:04:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from teoheras@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z31so572652nzd for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:04:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=lX8z1QZyYTwlL9F2Tuy6uJIbru7M0ZZIfqAMVBPaeSmHmC2en/jnXYr+BM9c3MDPZJiYsOjHLUR9+u9hRbg9xwzpUVdAF2ugO+l9x+7gOpLLZys+e2aOtYqC6oL7Rfx6xroc8Iz9rKyn2P1wCsG7sXVrLPIvK52DxnP8m6NY7IM= Received: by 10.36.146.10 with SMTP id t10mr3889811nzd; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:04:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.148.7 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:04:12 -0400 From: Teo De Las Heras To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2cbc9d820510141024i80098bdpee425dd4d0eb19b6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Fwd: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:04:15 -0000 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Teo De Las Heras Date: Oct 14, 2005 1:38 PM Subject: Re: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image? To: Jared Evans yeah...you'll need to install the vmware tools for FreeBSD. Here's the link= : http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/new_guest_tools_ws.html#1008244 I was in the same situation and it worked for me. Teo On 10/14/05, Jared Evans wrote: > > I know that this isn't exactly a standard configuration (VMWare as oppose= d > to native installation) for FreeBSD so most of the answers I found online > weren't really applicable for me. > > I simply wanted a high resolution FreeBSD console PTYs running under > VMWare. > It was surprisingly more complex than I expected: > > When attempting to change screen resolution for a console in FreeBSD > running > under VMWare, I ran across this error message: > > > vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 > > vidcontrol: cannot set videomode inappropriate ioctl for device > > It seemed to me that VMWare was unable to init VESA correctly in console > but > strangely enough Xorg is capable of changing to a higher resolution > without > any problems. > > After some googling: > > VESA driver in current source tree checks the NONVGA flag of VESA > information block when loading. If this flag is set it will refuse to > initialize. Most VESA adapters do not set this flag, but the virtual > display > adapter in VMWare does. > > in src/sys/i386/isa/vesa.c, there is a check for the flag V_NONVGA in lin= e > 655. If you comment it out, flag check will be bypassed. After all, if > Xorg > can use higher resolution, there shouldn't be a problem using VESA on the > console! > > Re-compiling my kernel to include the below as suggested by several more > web > searches: > > options VESA > options SC_PIXEL_MODE > options VGA_WIDTH90 > > rebooting then: > > > vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 > > vidcontrol: operation not supported by device > > Any more tips for me? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >