Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:45:58 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> To: Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca> Cc: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware on FreeBSD (Full Screen) Message-ID: <19991206214557.A456@jupiter.delta.ny.us> In-Reply-To: <384C1D00.387104FB@heartland.ab.ca>; from dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca on Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:30:56PM -0700 References: <199911271743.MAA01184@mindspring.com> <384C1D00.387104FB@heartland.ab.ca>
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On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:30:56PM -0700, Darren Wiebe wrote:
> I have done a little bit of experimenting in getting vmware to run in
> full screen mode under "X".
Well done.
> 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.
It's a better way to do such things not in /dev directory, but in
/compat/linux/dev .
> 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.. :-)
Did you have possibility to switch to the text fullscreen mode?
This is a exciting mode to launch FreeBSD or Linux in VMware.
--
Vladimir Silyaev
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