From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Dec 7 15:38:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ftf.dk (mail.ftf.net [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE4514F22 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 15:38:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from regnauld@ftf.net) Received: from ns.int.ftf.net (fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged)) by mail.ftf.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/gw-ftf-1.2) with ESMTP id AAA00303; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 00:37:24 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.ftf.dk: Host fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged) claimed to be ns.int.ftf.net Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by ns.int.ftf.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) id AAA68002; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 00:23:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19991208002346.58069@ns.int.ftf.net> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 00:23:46 +0100 From: Phil Regnauld To: Alex Cc: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" , Darren Wiebe , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware on FreeBSD (Full Screen) References: <199911271743.MAA01184@mindspring.com> <384C1D00.387104FB@heartland.ab.ca> <384C1E81.E251A1C6@heartland.ab.ca> <19991206215459.B456@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <384D50DC.9665019E@freenet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <384D50DC.9665019E@freenet.co.uk>; from Alex on Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 06:24:28PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 Organization: FTFnet Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alex writes: > "Vladimir N. Silyaev" wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:37:21PM -0700, Darren Wiebe wrote: > > > I think that I have found part of the problem. I should be running > > > XFree86 3.3.4 or higher. I am going to upgrade to 3.3.5 which is the > > > current port. Should that be added to the dependancies?? > > It's not so easy. The first of all, I don't know about supporting DGA > > in the X client libraries from RedHat 5.2 (currently linux_base port > > based on this version of RedHat), but Marcel have new port. > > Next, as I know, our port system doesn't have version dependencies, > > now port system simple checking for the existence library, or executable. > > > DGA is supported under emulation (and works). However, it's probably > not all that's required to make full-screen modes work. VMWare seems > to require only 2 device symlinks: tty0 and tty7. tty0 goes to > /dev/ttyv0, and tty7 should go to whichever ttyv you're running X on > (e.g. for me it's ttyv6 and not ttyv7). When I start VMWare it briefly > goes full-screen, saying "Testing display... please wait", and then > drops back into standard window mode, complaining about not being able > to use tty8 for full-screen VGA mode. When I gave it an extra tty to > play with (symlinking tty8 to ttyv1), it failed to set the right mode, > corrupting the screen and wedging the system. Two messages appeared in > /var/log/messages: Actually, mine went full screen... and made it go black :-| I had to switch to ttyv0 and kill the X server (but vmware + X was running -- just black screen). -- [ In 24 days, 1 hours and 36 minutes, this line might fail Y2K compliance ] y2k -- an occasion to remember how far we haven't come in the last 2000 years. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message