This may not be the answer to your question. when I installed FC2 to Dell Optiplec GX270. There was X window problem. Can't recall the exact preblem, but someting to do with color depth setting => scree configuration. I get a 865patch installed and boot it prior to X server. It worked. 965 patch from http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html Good luck --- David L Norris <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 10:17 +0800, Ow Mun Heng > wrote: > > Well, For some obsure reason, a depth of 16 has > better power management > > compared to 24 (according to some users of the > cpufreq code) > > > > So, in essence, you have to make sure that your > X's config and that of > > vmware's X is of the same default depth. > > The guest video performance will be much better > using fullscreen. In a > window it seems to run faster if the depth matches. > 16bpp seems to be > the best guest and host depth. Also, if the host > does not have a depth > and mode to match the guest OS then you can not use > fullscreen. The > host's video card drivers need to support direct > access for fullscreen. > (e.g. NVidia cards seem to need the proprietary > driver.) > > > For the original poster: system-config-display can > be used to adjust the > default mode and depth. Set the "Color Depth" to > "Thousands of Colors" > on the settings tab. > > > Otherwise, FC2 works fine for me as a host and guest > running VMWare > Workstation 4.5.2 build 8848. I also have used > another FC2 host running > VMWare GSX Server 3.1.0 without problems. > > -- > David Norris > http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ > ICQ - 412039 > > ATTACHMENT part 1.2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
