Re: Screen Resolution

From: Hervé Kergourlay (herve.kergourlay_at_atempo.com)
Date: 05/31/05

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    Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:47:41 +0200
To: Rob MacGregor <freebsd.macgregor@blueyonder.co.uk>

    Rob MacGregor a écrit :

    >On Monday, May 30, 2005 7:58 PM, Peter Jeremy
    ><mailto:PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> unleashed the infinite monkeys and
    >produced:
    >
    >
    >
    >>On Mon, 2005-May-30 10:30:30 +0100, Rob MacGregor wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>Looking at VMWare's list of supported client OSs, FreeBSD 5 is only
    >>>supported in the recently released VMWare 5.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>I've run FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x and 6.x as VMware 4.5.2 clients without problems.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >So have I (in fact that's how I started using FreeBSD 5.0). However the drivers
    >required for their emulated graphics card are only supplied for FreeBSD 4.x with
    >VMWare 4.5.
    >
    >
    >
    and did you install the vmware tools for FreeBSD ?
    I did it with one found on the web but startx failed after :-(

    hervé

    >It's the same situation as with Solaris x86 - it'll run under VMWare 4.5, but
    >you're stuck with VESA graphics (though Sun did start including the appropriate
    >driver with the betas of 10 last year).
    >
    >
    >

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