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On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 08:59:47PM +0100, wabenbau@×××××.com wrote |
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> waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> These options are depending on CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM, CONFIG_DRM and |
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> CONFIG_PCI. You must activate all of these options too. |
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All set in the guest kernel. |
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> > > I think that you also need x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware installed |
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> > > on the guest if you want to use "-vga vmware". |
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> > I've tried that earlier, when things weren't working. Maybe it'll |
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> > work this time. |
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> Good luck. |
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"-vga vmware" started off OK in the text console today, but two major |
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problems... |
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1) No mouse or text cursor once I fired up X. A Google search indicates |
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that no-cursor-in-graphics-mode is a common problem with Vmware across |
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all platforms. The QEMU "-show-cursor" option did not help. Otherwise X |
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looked OK, and xrandr listed some ridiculously high resolutions, higher |
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than my 1920x1080 monitor. |
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2) The mouse still worked, despite being invisible. I was able to |
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blindly execute the mouse-click sequence to bring up the menu that |
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included logoff. Once I returned to the text console, it was all red. |
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Again, the keyboard still worked, and I was able to blindly shut down |
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the guest. |
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For now I'll stick with "-vga cirrus" or "-vga std". Looking at the |
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Xorg logs, I noticed that in "-vga std" X was looking for the "fbdev" |
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module, not finding it, and giving up. I emerged xf86-video-fbdev and X |
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now works in "-vga std", although xrandr reports only 1024x768 is |
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available. I intend to use it in linux mostly for distcc, so limited X |
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Window size options aren't a problem. |
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I didn't get much linux computing done today. I picked up a cheap |
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external USB floppy drive at Canada Computers and transferred Galactic |
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Civilizations v2.5 for OS/2 from my ancient relic 450 mhz Pentium 3 (128 |
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megs of RAM) to my QEMU machine. The P3 has a built-in floppy drive; my |
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other computers don't. The next challenge is to get OS/2 Warp 4 running |
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in QEMU as per http://sites.mpc.com.br/ric/qemu/ |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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