Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:04:12 -0400 From: Teo De Las Heras <teoheras@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image? Message-ID: <d9d7f5a0510141104w22411f07iae3079d1e01e22b7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d9d7f5a0510141038t2d84fbf0yd54ba4999994a39d@mail.gmail.com> References: <2cbc9d820510141024i80098bdpee425dd4d0eb19b6@mail.gmail.com> <d9d7f5a0510141038t2d84fbf0yd54ba4999994a39d@mail.gmail.com>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Teo De Las Heras <teoheras@gmail.com> Date: Oct 14, 2005 1:38 PM Subject: Re: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image? To: Jared Evans <jnevans@gmail.com> yeah...you'll need to install the vmware tools for FreeBSD. Here's the link= : http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/new_guest_tools_ws.html#1008244 I was in the same situation and it worked for me. Teo On 10/14/05, Jared Evans <jnevans@gmail.com> wrote: > > I know that this isn't exactly a standard configuration (VMWare as oppose= d > to native installation) for FreeBSD so most of the answers I found online > weren't really applicable for me. > > I simply wanted a high resolution FreeBSD console PTYs running under > VMWare. > It was surprisingly more complex than I expected: > > When attempting to change screen resolution for a console in FreeBSD > running > under VMWare, I ran across this error message: > > > vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 > > vidcontrol: cannot set videomode inappropriate ioctl for device > > It seemed to me that VMWare was unable to init VESA correctly in console > but > strangely enough Xorg is capable of changing to a higher resolution > without > any problems. > > After some googling: > > VESA driver in current source tree checks the NONVGA flag of VESA > information block when loading. If this flag is set it will refuse to > initialize. Most VESA adapters do not set this flag, but the virtual > display > adapter in VMWare does. > > in src/sys/i386/isa/vesa.c, there is a check for the flag V_NONVGA in lin= e > 655. If you comment it out, flag check will be bypassed. After all, if > Xorg > can use higher resolution, there shouldn't be a problem using VESA on the > console! > > Re-compiling my kernel to include the below as suggested by several more > web > searches: > > options VESA > options SC_PIXEL_MODE > options VGA_WIDTH90 > > rebooting then: > > > vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 > > vidcontrol: operation not supported by device > > Any more tips for me? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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