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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware video
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 13:45:47 -0400
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> Found the reason for the problem and a solution. For some reason the
> number of colors P9 is using in vmware is not independant of the
> number of colors the Xwindows are running with (with windows or linux
> as host I think you can use any number of colors which is under the
> number of colors of the guest, so this seems to be a bug). It works
> well if I run the Xwindows with 16 bpp of depth.

The vga driver is supposed to pick up the depth from
VMware, ignoring what you set in plan9.ini.   Which
depth doesn't work for you?

I haven't tried Plan 9 under VMware for Linux, so you're
in uncharted territory.

Russ