VMWare server won't switch to full screen mode - says it's a XF86 config problemI

RavenOak ravenoak at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 17:58:58 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 15:26 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> I'm hunting the VMWare forums on this, but, I ask here as well as 
> it looks as if it could be an xorg problem. Has anyone 
> encountered the following error when trying to switch to full 
> screen mode: 
> 
> ********************************************
> Unable to find an appropriate host video mode.
> Adding the guest mode to the 'display' subsection of the 'screen' 
> section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config and restarting X is likely 
> to help.
> 
> Failed to switch to full screen SVGA mode.
> *********************************************
> 
> On a very similar F7 box (this one is F7, P4 2.8 GHz, 1 GB ram, 
> and nVidia card with proprietary driver) - box at home is 
> running the same video card but has Dual Core processor, same 
> ram, at home my machine switches to full screen with no problem. 
> Comparing the two xorg.conf files yields nothing real obvious. I 
> could post them if someone has a theory, or has fixed this 
> before. 
> -- 
> Claude Jones
> Brunswick, MD, USA

I've always gotten around this by having the same resolution (both login
screen and desktop) in the guest as the host.

--Tim




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