Re: [9fans] vmware confused about color depth

[andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>]

not to help, but to add:

I've had two people report problems with vmware 4 and plan9 under windows
(plan9 not booting at all) which I'm waiting for my own vmware 4 version to
confirm...

It may not be a consolation, but you'll find that you're much better off
using drawterm with vmware than the vmware window itself. the interaction
between X and drawterm is much better (mouse/keyboard-wise) than between X
and vmware (I personally hate "mouse grabbing"); besides, drawterm windows
can be resized at will :)

andrey

On Wed, 14 May 2003 markp@panix.com wrote:

> 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
>