Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 13:59:09 -0700 From: Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca> To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware on FreeBSD (Full Screen) Message-ID: <384D751D.823645F1@heartland.ab.ca> References: <199911271743.MAA01184@mindspring.com> <384C1D00.387104FB@heartland.ab.ca> <19991206214557.A456@jupiter.delta.ny.us>
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"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
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