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Date:      Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:04:14 -0700
From:      pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com>
To:        "N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: setting up X -- under VMWare?
Message-ID:  <57d710000510241004p170a99u3abc981ecdd9e271@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051024164538.GA23846@ayvali.org>
References:  <20051024164538.GA23846@ayvali.org>

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On 10/24/05, N.J. Thomas <njt@ayvali.org> wrote:
>
> I'm setting up X on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine. I've done that before, but
> this is the first time I'm doing it inside a VMWare virtual machine.
>
> What monitor/video card parameters should I supply for XFree86-4
> configuration? That of my real monitor/video card or some virtual
> VMWare one?



VMware exports a virtual video device if I remember correctly. I'd try
running xf86cfg to see if it recognizes it...who know's you'll get lucky ;)
otherwise it .ko should be located in /kernel/modules.

-pete

thanks,
> Thomas
>
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> N.J. Thomas
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