setting up X -- under VMWare?

pete wright nomadlogic at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 10:04:16 PDT 2005


On 10/24/05, N.J. Thomas <njt at ayvali.org> wrote:
>
> I'm setting up X on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine. I've done that before, but
> this is the first time I'm doing it inside a VMWare virtual machine.
>
> What monitor/video card parameters should I supply for XFree86-4
> configuration? That of my real monitor/video card or some virtual
> VMWare one?



VMware exports a virtual video device if I remember correctly. I'd try
running xf86cfg to see if it recognizes it...who know's you'll get lucky ;)
otherwise it .ko should be located in /kernel/modules.

-pete

thanks,
> Thomas
>
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