Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 23:05:55 +0900 From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> To: grg@philol.msu.ru Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware Message-ID: <8666tedw3g.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:48:24 %2B0400" <20000419174824.A44576@isabase.philol.msu.ru> References: <20000419145636.A42635@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <868zyadxhi.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <20000419174824.A44576@isabase.philol.msu.ru>
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At Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:48:24 +0400, Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:35:53PM +0900, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote: > > Aren't you using the emulators/vmware2 port?? We are maintaining > > Hints.FreeBSD to collect and provide such kind of information. > > I use it. First of all, it just didn't compile saying > "broken -- This software absolutely requires Linux procfs support" > until I found the URL of linprocfs post accidentally. In case you don't, please grab the latest port (tree) to avoid out-of-date Q&A's. > Sorry. I might have missed something. Really, there is a file > /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/df, but during the installation of the port, I > think I haven't seen any instructions telling to prepend > /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin to the $PATH. You don't need to do that. Actually, you need to do nothing if you successfully installed the vmware2 port. > > > 2) how to deal with the vmware's attempt to find /dev/tty4 > > > or so > > > > Ditto. The vmware2 port creates them on installation. > > No. It hasn't created them for me. Don't you see /compat/linux/dev/tty4? Too weird. I might dare presume you don't have /compat at all. > > > 3) why vmware says that I have 'old DGA' and therefore > > > full screen mode be disabled. > > > > Ditto. I wrote a mention of that issue in Hints.FreeBSD. > > Excellent. There are not pointers from README to this file, > however, so I couldn't know about its existence. When the port/package installation is done, a message that asks you to refer to the docs installed under `${PREFIX}/share/doc/vmare/' should have appeared. I think you missed it. -- / /__ __ / ) ) ) ) / Akinori -Aki- MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( <knu@idaemons.org> "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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