From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Mon Oct 24 17:10:19 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F3316A41F
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:10:19 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from dick@nagual.st)
Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4715043D46
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:10:19 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from dick@nagual.st)
Received: from pooh.nagual.st (pooh.nagual.st [192.168.11.22])
	by nagual.st with esmtp; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:10:18 +0200
	id 00000029.435D157A.00000425
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:11:52 +0200
From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
To: fbsdq <questions@freebsd.org>
Message-Id: <20051024191152.04bfe691.dick@nagual.st>
In-Reply-To: <20051024164538.GA23846@ayvali.org>
References: <20051024164538.GA23846@ayvali.org>
Organization: de nagual
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.3 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: 
Subject: Re: setting up X -- under VMWare?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:10:20 -0000

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