Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:47:41 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9_Kergourlay?= <herve.kergourlay@atempo.com> To: Rob MacGregor <freebsd.macgregor@blueyonder.co.uk> Cc: 'Peter Jeremy' <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screen Resolution Message-ID: <429C088D.2010809@atempo.com> In-Reply-To: <200505310600.j4V60wAb012413@the-macgregors.org> References: <200505310600.j4V60wAb012413@the-macgregors.org>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020005060801000305020704 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Rob MacGregor a écrit : >On Monday, May 30, 2005 7:58 PM, Peter Jeremy ><mailto:PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> unleashed the infinite monkeys and >produced: > > > >>On Mon, 2005-May-30 10:30:30 +0100, Rob MacGregor wrote: >> >> >>>Looking at VMWare's list of supported client OSs, FreeBSD 5 is only >>>supported in the recently released VMWare 5. >>> >>> >>I've run FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x and 6.x as VMware 4.5.2 clients without problems. >> >> > >So have I (in fact that's how I started using FreeBSD 5.0). However the drivers >required for their emulated graphics card are only supplied for FreeBSD 4.x with >VMWare 4.5. > > > and did you install the vmware tools for FreeBSD ? I did it with one found on the web but startx failed after :-( hervé >It's the same situation as with Solaris x86 - it'll run under VMWare 4.5, but >you're stuck with VESA graphics (though Sun did start including the appropriate >driver with the betas of 10 last year). > > > --------------020005060801000305020704--
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