I read many messages here but I could not found the right answer for my question:
With which driver can I set the resultion to 1.280 x 1.024 (or higher) in truecolor?
At the moment I'm using the VMWare Driver but I read it's not possible to go beyond 1.024 x 768. On another message I read that the VESA 2.0 driver from the v4 upgrade works, but the writer does not say if it works for Fusion or other.
Can somebody help to solve this mystery?
Quote from: "Clark Kent"
At the moment I'm using the VMWare Driver but I read it's not possible to go beyond 1.024 x 768.
I'm in the same boat, only until 1024x768 works.
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On another message I read that the VESA 2.0 driver from the v4 upgrade works, but the writer does not say if it works for Fusion or other.
Parallels emulates a VESA gfx framebuffer, so on parallels you can use the VESA screenmodes. On vmware it tells on booting that there was no VESA gfx board found.
Thanx for the answers! :)
Here (
http://www.armaturendienst.de/Morgon_de/downloads/VMWareFB-1.0x.I.bs.tar.gz) you can find a version of VMWareFB that supports several higher resolutions. Source code is included so you might add your own ones as desired as I did for another user.
From what he told me max. resolution is limited to somewhat at 2560x1600.
Morgon
Quote from: "Morgon"Here (http://www.armaturendienst.de/Morgon_de/downloads/VMWareFB-1.0x.I.bs.tar.gz) you can find a version of VMWareFB that supports several higher resolutions. Source code is included so you might add your own ones as desired as I did for another user.
From what he told me max. resolution is limited to somewhat at 2560x1600.
Morgon
Unfortunatly this is the non-working one. If you choose a resolution higher than 1024x768 you get a blue-scrambled display.
I understand that this works with Parallels Desktop only.
Quote from: "Andreas"
Unfortunatly this is the non-working one. If you choose a resolution higher than 1024x768 you get a blue-scrambled display.
Hmm. Okay. Didn't know that as I use a complete different driver. So I had no need to try that one with recent versions of VMware. Haven't tested mine for resolutions above 1280x1024 (that one works fine) and not on Fusion (due to a lack of MacOSX).
I've read that Parallels is about 20 % faster than VMWare. Maybe I should try this one.
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.25/25.04/VMBenchmarks/
Quote from: "Clark Kent"I've read that Parallels is about 20 % faster than VMWare. Maybe I should try this one.
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.25/25.04/VMBenchmarks/
I haven't had time to try Morgon's modified driver yet, but as far as Parallels being faster, I do agree w/ that. On my systems, it beats everything hands down speed wise, but it does lack audio. Fusion 1.x & 2.0 atleast support audio out that works well. So it's basically comes down to a personal choice. :-) Take care.
Though it seems to be somewhat true about the max. screen resolution in VMware Fusion using the VMwareFB driver is 1024x768, with a bit of experimenting found that switching the Mac display to "thousands" before booting NextStep (and possibly OpenStep) allowed higher screen resolutions up to 1280x1024.
Just thought I'd mention that as a workaround for getting a higher screen res. even though it's not 24 bit true color.
Interesting information! Thank you for sharing!
Maybe this indicates some kind of video memory shortage issue.
It would be great if someone could look into the driver's source code or the VMWare configuration file, to find the problem.
It would be great to be able to run NeXTStep 3.3 using the native resolution of my display (1680 x 1050).
I just posted to the VMWareFB driver development post and then saw the comment here. Sorry for the duplication.