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Date:      Tue, 7 Dec 1999 11:04:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
To:        Alex <ak@freenet.co.uk>
Cc:        "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>, Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VMware on FreeBSD (Full Screen)
Message-ID:  <199912071904.LAA00980@whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <384D50DC.9665019E@freenet.co.uk> from Alex at "Dec 7, 1999 06:24:28 pm"

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Alex writes:
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| "Vladimir N. Silyaev" wrote:
| > 
| > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:37:21PM -0700, Darren Wiebe wrote:
| > > I think that I have found part of the problem.  I should be running
| > > XFree86 3.3.4 or higher.  I am going to upgrade to 3.3.5 which is the
| > > current port.  Should that be added to the dependancies??
| > It's not so easy. The first of all, I don't know about supporting DGA
| > in the X client libraries from RedHat 5.2 (currently linux_base port
| > based on this version of RedHat), but Marcel have new port.
| > Next, as I know, our port system doesn't have version dependencies,
| > now port system simple checking for the existence library, or executable.
| 
| 
| DGA is supported under emulation (and works).   However, it's probably
| not all that's required to make full-screen modes work.   VMWare seems
| to require only 2 device symlinks:  tty0 and tty7.   tty0 goes to
| /dev/ttyv0, and tty7 should go to whichever ttyv you're running X on
| (e.g. for me it's ttyv6 and not ttyv7).  When I start VMWare it briefly
| goes full-screen, saying "Testing display... please wait", and then
| drops back into standard window mode, complaining about not being able
| to use tty8 for full-screen VGA mode.   When I gave it an extra tty to
| play with (symlinking tty8 to ttyv1), it failed to set the right mode,
| corrupting the screen and wedging the system.   Two messages appeared in
| /var/log/messages:

FYI on my laptop, X is on ttyv4, I had to create:
	770z# ls -l tty? 
	lrwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  5 Dec  7 10:40 tty0 -> ttyv0
	lrwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  5 Dec  7 10:42 tty4 -> ttyv4
	770z# 
and now I get DGA acceleration!  This make graphics (ie Win95) more
usable.  I'm also using RedHat 6.0 for my Linux compat stuff.

As you said full screen doesn't work it complains on sysmouse problems.
I don't have moused running and just use psm0.

Doug A.


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