Hi Ted, ---- Ted Miller <tedlists at 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