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Date:      Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:48:43 -0500
From:      "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>
To:        Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>
Cc:        Alex <ak@freenet.co.uk>, "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>, Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VMware on FreeBSD (Full Screen)
Message-ID:  <19991207234843.E6719@jupiter.delta.ny.us>
In-Reply-To: <19991208002346.58069@ns.int.ftf.net>; from regnauld@ftf.net on Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:23:46AM %2B0100
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> <19991208002346.58069@ns.int.ftf.net>

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On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:23:46AM +0100, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> > 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).

I have the same problem, and I think it's depend from used X server.
-- 
Vladimir Silyaev


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