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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:39:58 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] vga and vmware
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> /dev/vgactl says 0xe0000000 has 0x3c0000 mapped.  Enough for
> 1024x768x4 bytes but not enoug hfor 1280x1024x4 bytes.  I
> patched vgavmware.c line 179 to allocate 2*vmrd(vm, Rfbsize)
> instead of vmrd(vm, Rfbsize) and now I'm able to go into 1280x1024x8
> mode.  This is obviously just a hack, I don't know what a
> real solution would be (is it possible that the hardware register
> returns a different size after changing the mode?)

why would 8 bit color require 4 bytes-per-pixel?

- erik