Re: vmware
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 12:37:23PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote:
> I'm starting to use vmware, and I love it. However, I can only get 16 colors
> with it. Does anyone know how to get the color depth to increase (win98)?
>
> I'm running it on an amd k6-2 300 with a creative labs RIVATNT card (which it
> does not seem to see). It tells me that I have a Standard Display Adapter
> (VGA). When I d/l'd the tnt drivers, it warned me that they were not designed
> for this adapter.
You need two things in order to get greater resolution in Win98 on
vmware:
1. A DGA-compliant X server. There are some modified servers you can
download from vmware. I know that at least the SVGA server in potato
has this, but am not sure about others or the ones in slink.
2. You need to download the vmware-tools from vmware and install them
in Win98. These include a new svga driver (you do not use the driver
for your video card -- thing virtual. I'm getting 1024x768 full screen
and it works fine.
There are many technical support pages on the vmware web site. They
also have some news groups that I have found helpful.
Bob
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