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
