[PLUG] VMware Player and Screen Resolution

[Elliott Mitchell]

>From: Steve Beattie <sbeattie at suse.de>
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 08:48:57AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > However, I would like to be able to build a "1024x704" virtual screen
> > for VMplayer, as big as possible.  Is this practical with any of the
> > VMware tools?  Will the windows drivers permit arbitrary shapes for
> > screens, or will available vmx_XXXX.drv files for windows guests only
> > do the standard size screens?   Is there a more capable driver than
> > vmx_svga.drv for Win98 guests?
> 
> I don't know the answer to your question, but windows drivers in general
> seem to be pretty limiting in terms of what resolutions they support;
> I've never seen one support the equivalent of writing your own modeline
> for the X server. But my experience with them is limited.

I've seen a report that recent versions of nVIDIA's windows driver will
allow you to do just that. Something along the lines of an advanced tab,
or one of their extra programs. Alas this isn't too likely to help with
the problem at hand.


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