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Subject: [9fans] vmware confused about color depth
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 21:59:02 -0400
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so, looking for alternatives to drawterm, I got a demo copy of vmware 4
for linux. mostly all is well, but it seems vmware is confused about the
depth of the plan9 screen, and that's preventing me from running it in
fullscreen. when I try an error box tells me "unable to turn on direct
graphics. your guest's depth (24) doesn't match your host's (16)". yet
$vgasize on the guest plan9 is 1024x768x16 as it should be.  is this a
known issue? can anything be done?

this is XFree86 4.3.0 on a ThinkPad 600e, if that helps.

---mp