Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:03:36 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5." Message-ID: <20110408120335.GA2648@sh4-5.1blu.de> In-Reply-To: <4D9EE09F.6050409@FreeBSD.org> References: <20110408084232.GA28116@sh4-5.1blu.de> <4D9EE09F.6050409@FreeBSD.org>
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El día Friday, April 08, 2011 a las 12:17:03PM +0200, Dimitry Andric escribió: > 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. > > > >Any idea how to solve this? 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? > > 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. > > Alternatively, run "make config" in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers, check the > "VMMOUSE" and "VMWARE" entries, and rebuild this meta-port. Dimitry, 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. Thanks again matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/
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