Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 13:37:21 -0700 From: Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca> To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware on FreeBSD (Full Screen) Message-ID: <384C1E81.E251A1C6@heartland.ab.ca> References: <199911271743.MAA01184@mindspring.com> <384C1D00.387104FB@heartland.ab.ca>
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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?? I do not have
a patch to add it yet but I could come up with one yet.
Darren Wiebe
dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com
Darren Wiebe wrote:
>
> I have done a little bit of experimenting in getting vmware to run in
> full screen mode under "X". 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. 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.. :-)
>
> I will look into "DGA" more tommorrow night. I think that I recall
> seeing an error like that on redhat before I replaced my X server with a
> special one, however, that is a long time ago. Also, I blew away my
> redhat installation so...
>
> Darren Wiebe
> dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com
>
[SNIP]
Sorry, I did not mean to include that old message
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