From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Dec 6 18:46:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from smtp5.mindspring.com (smtp5.mindspring.com [207.69.200.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 479EB14C3B for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 18:46:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vsilyaev@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-2inig27.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.64.71]) by smtp5.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA30318; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:46:10 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vsilyaev@localhost) by mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00494; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:46:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from vsilyaev) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:45:58 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" To: Darren Wiebe Cc: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" , emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware on FreeBSD (Full Screen) Message-ID: <19991206214557.A456@jupiter.delta.ny.us> References: <199911271743.MAA01184@mindspring.com> <384C1D00.387104FB@heartland.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <384C1D00.387104FB@heartland.ab.ca>; from dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca on Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:30:56PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message