Re: [9fans] vmware video

["Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vladimir@acm.org>]

[Apologies if this is yet another duplicate message.]

Unfortunately, I too am having trouble with the video.

Switching X to 16 bpp didn't help. I still get a screen with
windows/frames, but no text, no mouse/keyboard and strange lines in the
windows/frames.

My Linux host screen is 1600x1200 and my Plan9 guest is 1024x768, both
at 16 bpp.

I'm also running Win2K guest on Linux host successfully, so I know the
"hardware" is working.

I've appended my config file if that's of any use.

Any ideas on what I should try to debug this problem?

Thanks!

-- Vladimir


vic wrote:

>Congratulations on the new release.
>
>I'm having trouble with video under vmware 3.1.
>The image is distorted.
>
>Here's a picture since I'm not sure how to describe the
>problem.
>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/vmvga.jpg
>
>I'm running vmware on Linux.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks.
>

#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = 6
virtualHW.version = 2
displayName = "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"

# CD-ROM
ide1:0.present = TRUE
ide1:0.fileName = /dev/cdrom1
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide1:0.startConnected = FALSE

# Virtual hard disk on primary master
ide0:0.present = TRUE
ide0:0.fileName = /mnt/archives/plan9/disk.vmdk
ide0:0.deviceType = ata-hardDisk
ide0:0.mode = persistent
ide0:0.writethrough = FALSE

# Floppy
floppy0.present = "TRUE"
floppy0.fileName = /dev/fd0
floppy0.startConnected = FALSE

# Networked through shared IP address
ethernet0.present = TRUE
ethernet0.connectionType = nat

# Memory size
memsize = 128

# Nvram
nvram = other.nvram

# Log file
log.fileName = plan9.log

# Hints
guestOS = other

>


--- Vladimir

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