Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:11:52 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: fbsdq <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: setting up X -- under VMWare? Message-ID: <20051024191152.04bfe691.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20051024164538.GA23846@ayvali.org> References: <20051024164538.GA23846@ayvali.org>
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On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:45:39 -0400 "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? What I always do is run a knoppix live CD under vmware. The generated Xorg.conf is absolutely great. Write is down (or save it somewhere; put it into /etc/X11 on your freebsd virtual machine and all's well. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja
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