From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware confused about color depth In-Reply-To: <200305150159.h4F1x2L26743@panix1.panix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:13:18 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab673aa2-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 >