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Date:      Fri, 8 Apr 2011 08:57:11 -0700
From:      Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."
Message-ID:  <187B7694-2094-473A-9A57-4649494A7F3E@vicor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110408120335.GA2648@sh4-5.1blu.de>
References:  <20110408084232.GA28116@sh4-5.1blu.de> <4D9EE09F.6050409@FreeBSD.org> <20110408120335.GA2648@sh4-5.1blu.de>

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On Apr 8, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:

> El d=C3=ADa Friday, April 08, 2011 a las 12:17:03PM +0200, Dimitry Andric=
 escribi=C3=B3:
>=20
>> On 2011-04-08 10:42, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>> I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation 7.x and
>>> I tried to install the vmware-tools-freebsd of VMware to get the driver
>>> for Xorg, but it seems that X.org 7.6.5. is not supported. My other VM
>>> runs a 8-CURRENT with X.org 7.4_1 which works fine.
>>>=20
>>> Any idea how to solve this?

A co-worker and I recently went through this. Seems the trick is to install=
 xf86-video-vmware-10.16.9 (we are using 8.1-RELEASE), then re-run the vmwa=
re-config.pl file that you un-packed from the vmware-tools tarball, then ru=
n "X -configure" (as root), then copy /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.=
conf (making appropriate backups first, of course). We were able to achieve=
 1600x1200 resolution.
--=20
Devin


>>> Should I go back to X.org 7.4_1 in
>>> 9-CURRENT? Or should I fake the vmware-tools installer to see X.org as
>>> /.4 while it is 7.6.5?
>>=20
>> X.org 7.5 already has VMware drivers, so you can just install the
>> x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse and x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware ports.
>>=20
>> Alternatively, run "make config" in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers, check the
>> "VMMOUSE" and "VMWARE" entries, and rebuild this meta-port.
>=20
> Dimitry,=20
>=20
> Thanks for your kind  & fast answer; does this also mean that I could
> completely get rid of the VMware' vmware-tools-freebsd? I'm using on the
> 8-CURRENT system the emulators/open-vom-tools and will install them in
> the 9-CURRENT too.
>=20
> Thanks again
>=20
>    matthias
>=20
> --=20
> Matthias Apitz
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