Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

On Apr 8, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de> wrote:

> El día Friday, April 08, 2011 a las 12:17:03PM +0200, Dimitry Andric escribió:
> 
>> On 2011-04-08 10:42, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>> I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation 7.x and
>>> I tried to install the vmware-tools-freebsd of VMware to get the driver
>>> for Xorg, but it seems that X.org 7.6.5. is not supported. My other VM
>>> runs a 8-CURRENT with X.org 7.4_1 which works fine.
>>> 
>>> Any idea how to solve this?

A co-worker and I recently went through this. Seems the trick is to install xf86-video-vmware-10.16.9 (we are using 8.1-RELEASE), then re-run the vmware-config.pl file that you un-packed from the vmware-tools tarball, then run "X -configure" (as root), then copy /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (making appropriate backups first, of course). We were able to achieve 1600x1200 resolution.
-- 
Devin


>>> Should I go back to X.org 7.4_1 in
>>> 9-CURRENT? Or should I fake the vmware-tools installer to see X.org as
>>> /.4 while it is 7.6.5?
>> 
>> X.org 7.5 already has VMware drivers, so you can just install the
>> x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse and x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware ports.
>> 
>> Alternatively, run "make config" in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers, check the
>> "VMMOUSE" and "VMWARE" entries, and rebuild this meta-port.
> 
> Dimitry, 
> 
> Thanks for your kind  & fast answer; does this also mean that I could
> completely get rid of the VMware' vmware-tools-freebsd? I'm using on the
> 8-CURRENT system the emulators/open-vom-tools and will install them in
> the 9-CURRENT too.
> 
> Thanks again
> 
>    matthias
> 
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