setting up X -- under VMWare?
dick hoogendijk
dick at nagual.st
Mon Oct 24 10:10:20 PDT 2005
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:45:39 -0400
"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?
What I always do is run a knoppix live CD under vmware. The generated
Xorg.conf is absolutely great. Write is down (or save it somewhere; put
it into /etc/X11 on your freebsd virtual machine and all's well.
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