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P@trick

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Registered: 2007-12-09

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VMware Tools on XServer 1.5.X / Xorg 7.4

Hello,

Arch Linux runnig on my PC in a virtual maschine on vmware 6.5.1. With the old xserver 1.4 the guide works perfectly, but with the new xserver the vmwaretools install script is unable to create a xorg.conf.

I tryed to use my old xorg.conf (after vmware-tools was installed) for the new xserver, but that doesnt work. So does anybody knows what to do?
The wiki entrie is definitely wrong!

Greetings
Patrick

Last edited by P@trick (2008-12-13 12:36:32)

P@trick

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Registered: 2007-12-09

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Re: VMware Tools on XServer 1.5.X / Xorg 7.4

Maybe someone can move this to: "Desktop Environments" Forums?

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

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Re: VMware Tools on XServer 1.5.X / Xorg 7.4

try removing your xorg.conf..

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P@trick

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Registered: 2007-12-09

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Re: VMware Tools on XServer 1.5.X / Xorg 7.4

I do and than it works, but i cant change the monitor solution. it is always wide-screen than but i want 1280x1024.

So how can I change the monitor size than?

Last edited by P@trick (2008-12-13 17:25:35)

test1000

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Re: VMware Tools on XServer 1.5.X / Xorg 7.4

maybe this works:
Try adding as spartan as possible xorg.conf with just the Screen section for example(don't know if the screen section needs a Monitor and Device section but if it does then just add those aswell and make them as spartan as possible)

Section "Screen"
  SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
EndSection

see if that works... you also might be able to change the resolution with the nvidia graphical config tool, don't know if ati has such a utility too.. and i saw on the forum here a couple days back that some dude got it working with Option Preferredmode 1280x1024 for example

oh and you can see available modes(and set them) by running the xrandr cmd-line utility

Last edited by test1000 (2008-12-15 14:54:47)

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KISS = "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." - Albert Einstein