From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtPNP-0003m7-Td for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:33:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6FCVZNh028960; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:31:35 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6FCRfLN004359 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:27:41 GMT Received: from static-66-173-137-195.dsl.cavtel.net ([66.173.137.195] helo=antec.eyeofthequark.com) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtPIK-0004p7-PB for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:27:56 +0000 Received: by antec.eyeofthequark.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 20C8F89BBD8; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:27:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:27:57 -0400 From: Bill Roberts To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues Message-ID: <20050715122757.GA23412@antec.eyeofthequark.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Roberts , gentoo-user@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 52ce045c-c855-4424-a80c-3696eb6fa9c8 X-Archives-Hash: af93507df0b150ce2e515c5df8d17831 --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am going NUTS trying to figure out how to make full-screen mode work properly in vmware-workstation 5. I can go into full-screen mode, but it looks like only half of the lines get drawn, so it's very ugly, impossible to read. I had beautiful screens in 4.5.2 which turned ugly at some point (don't know causal factor). I emerged 5, got beautiful screens again. I have been trying to get mplayer & hdtv working, so I've been playing around with xorg.conf a lot, and I guess I managed to break it. I think I need additional modelines to make vmware work properly, not sure how to get the right ones.=20 At some point in this blur, I used a tool which automatically calculated all valid modelines for my combination of nvidia 6600gt and Dell monitor, using DDC and EDID. I threw them into xorg.conf, they didn't fix mplayer problems, I thought I didn't need them removed them without backup. Now I can't find the tool I used (I thought it was read-edid, but that won't run properly on my platform), I don't see a good way of reproducing the modelines, and I'm not even sure that they were responsible for the good screens I had in vmware. Both my vmware virtual machines (XP), and my real desktop run 1024x768, 24 bit color. Oh, one other oddity. The vmware modules vmmon and vmnet which should be loaded by /etc/init.d/vmware in default mode, don't get loaded. Can't figure out why. We are buying 15 Thinkpads T-43, I'm planning on installing Gentoo w/ vmware-workstation on top to create a mobile classroom. But I may have to use XP plus vmware if I can't sort these full-screen issues out. Any pointers are appreciated. Bill Roberts --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC16vNohvUMm13j2URAgBwAJ9UE3sruERwG0zyrcBSybWzBu8B2gCfeQi+ pb/aOZ8J9ptLsuKg5nQ1iUI= =vgDJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list