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Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA in better shape
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Gregory Casamento |
Subject: |
Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA in better shape |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 19:27:00 -0800 (PST) |
It unpacked correctly. When I try it I get:
"unsupported bpp 16"
I added a line in the driver to handle the 16 bit case and got it functioning,
but the encoding is wrong so the colors look funny.
Later, GJC
--- Frederic Stark <fred@almonde.com> wrote:
> > tar zxvf VMWareSVGA.tar.gz
> >
> > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> > tar: Child returned status 1
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >
> > Even when I try "tar xvf", I still have problems.
>
> Sorry. The archive was corrupted. I placed an updated one, which is not
> corrupted.
>
> <http://www.chez.com/fstark/VMWareSVGA.tar.gz>
>
> Rewritten from scratch, very verbose comments in source code. Works on
> my machine, but I'd be happy to know if it works else where. I'd like to
> know if it fails on someone too. I'd like to know if it works under a
> linux host (developped and tested on a windows one).
>
> Resolutions:
> 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200
>
> Bit depth:
> 8 bits grayscale, 8 bits color, 16 bits and 24 bits.
>
> Will override the user depth with what the host is running (to work
> around limitations in VMWare).
>
> If you choose a 0x0 resolution, the driver will use the host resolution.
>
> Note that the artifacts are still present, but I am not really sure if
> it would occur on every machine (I am the happy owner of a crappy Dell
> Lattitude C400, which have a lot of video-related problems)
>
> Cheers,
>
> --fred
>
>
>
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- OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA, Frederic Stark, 2002/01/23
- Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA, Pascal Bourguignon, 2002/01/23
- Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA, Frederic Stark, 2002/01/24
- Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA, Pascal Bourguignon, 2002/01/24
- Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA, Stefan Boehringer, 2002/01/24
- Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA, Frederic Stark, 2002/01/24
- Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA, Gregory Casamento, 2002/01/25
- OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA in better shape, Frederic Stark, 2002/01/28
- Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA in better shape,
Gregory Casamento <=
- Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA in better shape, Frederic Stark, 2002/01/30