Hi Ted,
---- Ted Miller tedlists@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On 08/06/2012 02:57 PM, Steve wrote:
I'm running an up-to-date CentOS 6 virtual machine in a VMWare player on a Windows box and I cannot set the display resolution to anything higher than 1280x720.
Windows shows the
screen resolution on this monitor to be 1920x1080. I do have VMWareTools installed although I'm not certain it is installed correctly. How can I tell?
Looks like you may need to rebuild or download VMWareTools for your latest kernel upgrade, but that may not deal with your basic problem.
The vmwlegacy video driver is located in the xorg-x11-drv-vmware package that Centos provides in the "base" repository. You probably need to install, update, or re-install that package.
Ted Miller
I do have the xorg-x11-drv-vmware package insalled:
$ rpm -qa | grep vmware xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-1.el6.i686
$ rpm -q --provides xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-1.el6.i686 vmware_drv.so vmwlegacy_drv.so xorg-x11-drv-vmware = 11.0.3-1.el6 xorg-x11-drv-vmware(x86-32) = 11.0.3-1.el6
$ locate vmwlegacy_drv.so /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/...<about 10 different versions> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vmlegacy_drv.so.old.0
Interesting. Why is the driver called .old.0?
# yum reinstall xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-1.el6.i686 ... # ls /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vm* /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers//vmware_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers//vmware_drv.so.BeforeVMwareToolsInstall.old.0 /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers//vmwlegacy_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers//vmwlegacy_drv.so.old.0
Reboot and ... yeay! Full screen resolution.
Thanks, Ted.
Steve