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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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