Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 22:13:06 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH" <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Video resolution in a VM Message-ID: <20190102221306.1bbd6c85.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CADy1Ce5TbBGEJMTk%2Biorq5mdsc8UnU0KT8XwUwUcudD2Vfqm_g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADy1Ce5TbBGEJMTk%2Biorq5mdsc8UnU0KT8XwUwUcudD2Vfqm_g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 17:05:09 -0800, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote: > I'm not able to get display resolution greater than 1280x720 - I'd > really like to get it to 1920x1080, to match the laptop capabilities. > > [...] > > The laptop shows two video displays in hdwwiz.cpl in Windows: > Intel HD Graphics 630 > NVIDIA GeForce 940MX > but it looks as if the NVIDIA isn't active. Don't know why that is. > > When I run xvinfo, it shows no display available. > > For "display", pciconf says: > vgapci0@pci0:0:15:0: class=0x030000 card=0x040515ad > chip=0x040515ad rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'VMware' > device = 'SVGA II Adapter' > class = display > subclass = VGA > > The .vmx files shows the following for the display: > vmotion.checkpointSVGAPrimarySize = "8323072" > svga.maxHeight = "1080" > svga.maxWidth = "1920" > svga.autodetect = "FALSE" > svga.vramSize = "8323072" > > Any thoughts would be appreciated. There are several things you can try: First of all, it seems that VMware does not properly "represent" the existing hardware to your FreeBSD VM instance, so you only seem to get the generic "SVGA card". Also, have you thought about increasing the VRAM size? You can never have enough of VRAM. :-) Try using xrandr to set the screen size from insie the VM. A command line xrandr --size 1920x1080 should work. You can also try to use a specific X configuration fragment, for example /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/screen-resolution.conf with a content like this: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" SubSection "Display" Modes "1920x1080" EndSubSection EndSection You could then experiment with the setting DisplaySize (in mm) and the Option "DPI" (for example with "110 x 110"), depending on the actual properties of the hardware (!) you are using. A laptop display only has one sceen size and one resolution. Normally, X will calculate the correct information itself, which is usually obtained from the display, but this might not work as intended because of the "VM mangling"... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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