[TriLUG] recommendation for laptop running vmware
Ed Hill
ed at eh3.com
Sun Apr 13 23:52:44 EDT 2003
On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 19:16, Ron Joffe wrote:
> On Sunday 13 April 2003 08:53 pm, Ed Hill wrote:
> --Snip
> > I wish I could say the same about my Thinkpad A21p. Its a great laptop
> > and I love everything about it *EXCEPT* it won't work with the VMWare
> > drivers at anything other than the default 640x480. Which is rotten
> > considering that I have a 1600x1200 LCD screen.
> -- Snip
>
> Ed,
>
> Can you get me a copy of your Xfree config file. Which distribution are you
> running? Did you have to recompile the VMWare drivers? I would like to take a
> look and see if I can help out. My experience has been that VMWare is rather
> picky. I have also had a lot of luck using the VMWare Usenet group for
> answers.
Hi Ron,
If you can figure out the problem, I'll owe you some beers. Or coffee
or whatever you prefer... ;-)
I've tried to do the VMWare install twice using both the older 3.x
version and the new v4 beta. Both installed without a hitch (not too
surprising since it is a standard RH kernel). And both showed serious
screen corruption within the VMWare window (running Win2K) when I
installed the VMWare "Tools" driver to try to access resolutions other
than the default 640x480. The screen corruption (would re-draw only in
a square block around the cursor) rendered the VMWare-hosted Win2K
sessions totally unusable.
I'm running a fairly stock KRUD 8.0 (essentially the same as RH 8.0) and
will soon upgrade by doing a fresh install of RH 9. The XFree config
file is attached and it has been modified from the KRUD/RH default so
that it does a better job with the BIOS handling of resolution
switching. The laptop itself is an A22p model 2629Y1U:
http://www5.pc.ibm.com/us/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_2629Y1U
with an ATI Rage Mobility 128 (lspci reports it as an "M3") chipset.
Having twice installed VMWare and thrice installed a host OS (2X Win2K
and 1X WinXP), I've mostly lost patience with the whole VMWare thing.
I've had success with it in the past (on desktop systems) and that was
the only thing that kept driving me to get it working.
Thanks in advance for any time you spend on it.
Ed
--
Edward H. Hill III, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Division of ESE, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
Email: ed at eh3.com ehill at mines.edu
Phone: 303-273-3483
URLs: http://cesep.mines.edu/people/hill.htm http://eh3.com
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# File generated by anaconda.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Anaconda Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "v4l"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5"
# when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
# following line
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
#Option "XkbOptions" ""
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us" #Option "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
# HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
# VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0
HorizSync 20-150
VertRefresh 10-400
#Modeline "640x480" 27.96 640 656 720 864 480 480 485 501
#Modeline "800x600" 43.68 800 816 928 1072 600 600 606 626
#Modeline "1024x768" 71.39 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 776 802
#Modeline "1152x864" 90.48 1152 1168 1384 1568 864 864 873 902
#Modeline "1280x960" 111.82 1280 1296 1552 1736 960 960 970 1003
#Modeline "1280x1024" 119.28 1280 1296 1552 1736 1024 1024 1035 1070
#Modeline "1600x1200" 160.16 1600 1616 1968 2208 1200 1200 1212 1253
#Modeline "1600x1200" 167.23 1600 1616 1968 2208 1200 1200 1212 1253
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
# no known options
#BusID
Identifier "ATI Rage 128 Mobility"
Driver "r128"
VendorName "ATI Rage 128 Mobility"
BoardName "ATI Rage 128 Mobility"
### Available Driver options are:-
# Option "NoAccel"
# Option "SWcursor"
# Option "HWcursor"
# Option "Dac6Bit"
# Option "Dac8Bit"
# Option "ForcePCIMode"
# Option "CCEPIOMode"
# Option "CCENoSecurity"
# Option "CCEusecTimeout"
Option "AGPMode" "1"
# Option "AGPSize"
# Option "RingSize"
# Option "VBListSize"
# Option "VBSize"
Option "UseCCEfor2D" "false"
Option "Display" "BIOS"
# Option "EnableFP"
# Option "CRTOnly"
# Option "UseFBDev"
# Identifier "Card0"
# Driver "r128"
# VendorName "ATI"
# BoardName "Rage 128 Mobility LF"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "ATI Rage 128 Mobility"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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