From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Dec 7 13:51:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from jasper.heartland.ab.ca (jasper.heartland.ab.ca [207.107.228.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B127A14D0E for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 13:51:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca) Received: from heartland.ab.ca (dyn118.heartland.ab.ca [207.107.228.118]) by jasper.heartland.ab.ca (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA21937; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 14:38:38 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <384D751D.823645F1@heartland.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 13:59:09 -0700 From: Darren Wiebe Organization: Hagen Homes Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware on FreeBSD (Full Screen) References: <199911271743.MAA01184@mindspring.com> <384C1D00.387104FB@heartland.ab.ca> <19991206214557.A456@jupiter.delta.ny.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Vladimir N. Silyaev" wrote: > > 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 . Okay, I agree with you but I had not thought of that.. I will change that on my system. > > > 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. Now it gives the following error message: (USER) NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(590):680 than it dies. I will be playing with it more yet, but I am going to be changing offices right soon, it is in the same building but will be lots of work, UGH!! Darren Wiebe dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com > > -- > Vladimir Silyaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message