Screen Resolution

Hervé Kergourlay herve.kergourlay at atempo.com
Mon May 30 23:47:46 PDT 2005


Rob MacGregor a écrit :

>On Monday, May 30, 2005 7:58 PM, Peter Jeremy
><mailto:PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au> unleashed the infinite monkeys and
>produced:
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>>On Mon, 2005-May-30 10:30:30 +0100, Rob MacGregor wrote:
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>>>Looking at VMWare's list of supported client OSs, FreeBSD 5 is only
>>>supported in the recently released VMWare 5.
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>>I've run FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x and 6.x as VMware 4.5.2 clients without problems.
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>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.
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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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