FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org
I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used VMWare for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable success, but I've never before installed x.org, and that's where I'm getting hung up. I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.3, with the latest xorg from ports (just updated today). I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If I use the vmware driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented some and tried the vesa driver, which worked nicely except the screen is huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the monitor, it's unusable. I've tried installaing the vmware-tools4 package, and I've tried it without the package. It doesn't seem to make much difference either way. Any suggestions or pointers on how to get a usable system inside VMWare? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org
On 02/24/05 23:37:53, Bill Moran wrote: I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used VMWare for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable success, but I've never before installed x.org, and that's where I'm getting hung up. I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.3, with the latest xorg from ports (just updated today). I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If I use the vmware driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented some and tried the vesa driver, which worked nicely except the screen is huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the monitor, it's unusable. I've tried installaing the vmware-tools4 package, and I've tried it without the package. It doesn't seem to make much difference either way. Any suggestions or pointers on how to get a usable system inside VMWare? Change you /etc/X11/xorg.conf to match the relevant parts of this Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device saphfire Monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] DefaultDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:37:53 -0500, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If I use the vmware driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented some and tried the vesa driver, which worked nicely except the screen is huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the monitor, it's unusable. it sounds like these issues are related to your X.org config file. you may want to check out the Subsection Display settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config (or maybe Xorg.config for xorg don't remember at the moment). I've never tried running X in a vmware machine, but if you are able to get the binary up and running I assume you should be able to change these config options. if this does not work i'd suggest posting the interesting portions of /var/log/XFree86.0.log to the list. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org
Jason Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/24/05 23:37:53, Bill Moran wrote: I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used VMWare for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable success, but I've never before installed x.org, and that's where I'm getting hung up. I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.3, with the latest xorg from ports (just updated today). I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If I use the vmware driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented some and tried the vesa driver, which worked nicely except the screen is huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the monitor, it's unusable. I've tried installaing the vmware-tools4 package, and I've tried it without the package. It doesn't seem to make much difference either way. Any suggestions or pointers on how to get a usable system inside VMWare? Change you /etc/X11/xorg.conf to match the relevant parts of this Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device saphfire Monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] DefaultDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection AHA! That did it very nicely. I forgot to put in Modes. Thank you very much ... made my day! For the archives ... I'm using the vesa driver ... The vmware driver doesn't seem capable of this. Runs at 1280x1024 very nicely both in a window, and in fullscreen. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
