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Richard |
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I tried all of your suggestions, without success. See inline comments: |
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Note device and monitor section of xorg.conf at end: |
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I've had one further idea. I have a 4-port kvm switch (Cybex), it has |
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never interferred with anything in the past four or five years. Wonder |
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if. . . , maybe that could be having an effect. |
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One other thought. In full screen, ever other line is black, giving |
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the awful looking screen. Couldn't that have something to do with |
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interlacing?? Wish I understood all of this better. |
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On 21:05 Fri 15 Jul , Richard Fish wrote: |
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> Well, nothing obvious is popping out at me, but see my comments |
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> inline below... |
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> Bill Roberts wrote: |
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> >I am going NUTS trying to figure out how to make full-screen mode |
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> >work properly in vmware-workstation 5. |
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> >I can go into full-screen mode, but it looks like only half of the |
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> >lines get drawn, so it's very ugly, impossible to read. |
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> > |
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> A major reason for this can be enabling framebuffer graphics in the |
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> kernel. If you are using framebuffer graphics, try compiling a new |
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> kernel with only text-mode console support. Full-screen vmware |
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> sessions seem most reliable this way. |
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I did have framebuffer graphics enabled, just for the smaller fonts. I |
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diabled them, didn't make any difference. Also, when I had good full |
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screens, I did have framebuffer graphics enabled. |
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> >I had beautiful screens in 4.5.2 which turned ugly at some point |
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> >(don't know causal factor). I emerged 5, got beautiful screens again. |
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> >I have been trying to get mplayer & hdtv working, so I've been playing |
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> >around with xorg.conf a lot, and I guess I managed to break it. I think |
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> >I need additional modelines to make vmware work properly, not sure how |
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> >to get the right ones. |
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> My guess is that this has nothing to do with the modelines, because on a |
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> modern system with a DDC capable monitor, everything should be |
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> autodetected. Specifically, double check your monitor section and try |
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> commenting out any HorizSync or VertRefresh settings that you have. |
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Modelines are supposed to be generally obsolete, and my Dell monitor |
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is DDC compliant, but I've been having difficulty with mplayer/mythtv. |
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Also, VmWare says I can run into these kind of problems if there isn't |
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an appropriate resolution available. |
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> >Oh, one other oddity. The vmware modules vmmon and vmnet which should |
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> >be loaded by /etc/init.d/vmware in default mode, don't get loaded. |
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> >Can't figure out why. |
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> Explain a bit more please...are you saying the vmware init script runs |
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> as part of your startup, but produces errors? You didn't by chance |
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> accidentally replace this with the VMWare version, did you? The second |
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> line of that script should say "Copyright ... Gentoo Foundation". |
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I did a "rc-update add vmware default" and back when, it actually |
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started the vmmon/vmnet modules. No longer. No error messages, no |
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hiccups, nothing. And when I manually do a "/etc/init.d/vmware start", |
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it works perfectly. The "Copyright ..." is there. |
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> If this doesn't give you any ideas, I would like to see the device and |
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> monitor sections from your xorg.conf file. |
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Here are the device and monitor sections of xorg.conf, plus a couple |
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of extra, maybe pertinent items. |
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Section "Monitor" |
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DisplaySize 350 255 # mm |
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Identifier "Monitor0" |
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VendorName "DEL" |
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ModelName "DELL D1226H" |
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# HorizSync 30.0 - 95.0 |
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# VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 |
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Option "DPMS" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Device" |
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Identifier "n6600gt" |
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Driver "nvidia" |
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Option "NoLogo" "1" |
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EndSection |
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Section "Screen" |
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Identifier "Screen0" |
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Device "n6600gt" |
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Monitor "Monitor0" |
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DefaultDepth 24 |
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SubSection "Display" |
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Depth 16 |
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Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" |
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EndSubSection |
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SubSection "Display" |
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Depth 24 |
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Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" |
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EndSubSection |
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EndSection |
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Maybe some of the following should be disabled??? |
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Section "Module" |
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Load "record" |
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Load "extmod" |
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Load "dbe" |
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Load "glx" |
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Load "xtrap" |
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Load "type1" |
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Load "freetype" |
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EndSection |
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