Semi-OT: JFW and VMWare

[bart bunting <bart socs uts edu au>]

hi,

only fix i found was to start the xserver with startx -bpp 8 force it
into 256 colour mode.  made that problem you describe go away.  the
whole sound thing is pretty anoying though, especially because it used
to work ok.

Bart

Nolan Darilek writes:
 > Ok, I'm beginning to doubt that this is a VMWare problem, but I'm
 > guessing that if it is, that someone here has solved it.
 > 
 > I grabbed the new version of VMWare which was released a few days ago,
 > but the sound problems still persist. So, I installed JFW on my
 > currently-unused /dev/ttyS0; my only frustration is that I have to
 > switch com ports when I switch into windows. Anyhow, this allowed me
 > to launch JFW.
 > 
 > Now, though JFW works well on dialogue boxes and menus, it doesn't
 > work at all with wordpad or explorer. I'd like to try it with
 > netscape/mozilla, but I somehow doubt that I will have any better
 > results. Similarly, HJ's own script editor displayed similar symptoms
 > to the previously-mentioned apps.
 > 
 > Basically, any large open panes such as webpages or edit windows
 > refuse to speak individual characters or lines. Arrowing over them
 > merely speaks apostrophes and parenthesis, as well as other odd
 > graphics chars.
 > 
 > I noticed that when JFW was installed, it complained that my video
 > card was operating at greater than 256 colors, but it seems that
 > VMWare only emulates a standard VGA at 640x480x16. I'd be surprised if
 > JFW had trouble with such a simple resolution, but maybe it
 > does. *shrug* Has anyone successfully used JFW 3.5, or any version of
 > JFW for that matter, with VMWare 2.0 (or even an earlier version?) Are
 > there any configuration options that I can try, on either end? I tried
 > upgrading win98's video drivers to the vanilla SVGA drivers, but win98
 > puked and I had to reset them to vanilla VGA.
 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
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