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Well, nothing obvious is popping out at me, but see my comments inline |
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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 work |
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>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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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 sessions |
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seem most reliable this way. |
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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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>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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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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-Richard |
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