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Subject: Re: VMware on FreeBSD (Full Screen)
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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??  I do not have
a patch to add it yet but I could come up with one yet.

Darren Wiebe
dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com

Darren Wiebe wrote:
> 
> I have done a little bit of experimenting in getting vmware to run in
> full screen mode under "X".  I will go through my steps.  Link
> "/dev/mouse" to "/dev/sysmouse", "/dev/tty0" to "/dev/ttyv0",
> "/dev/tty1" to "/dev/ttyv1", "/dev/tty2" to "/dev/ttyv2", "/dev/tty3" to
> "/dev/ttyv3", "/dev/tty4" to "/dev/ttyv4", and "/dev/tty11" to
> "/dev/ttyv9" this last one only applies as listed if your kernel does
> not support 11 virtual terminals.  Now, I do not have to specify
> "DISPLAY=localhost${DISPLAY};export DISPLAY".  However, it complains
> about not being able to initialize "DGA" which would be "Direct
> Graphics" I believe.  Also it gives the following message in my text
> virtual terminals "linux: 'ioctl' fd=7, cmd=541c ('T',28) not
> implemented".  I suspect that this is a step in the right direction, but
> I am not enough of a hacker to know for sure.. :-)
> 
> I will look into "DGA" more tommorrow night.  I think that I recall
> seeing an error like that on redhat before I replaced my X server with a
> special one, however, that is a long time ago.  Also, I blew away my
> redhat installation so...
> 


> Darren Wiebe
> dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com
> 

[SNIP]

Sorry, I did not mean to include that old message


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