Gentoo 2005, vesafb and VmWare 4.5.2

[opensas]

hi

I'm playing around with VmWare and gentoo

The livecd correctly sets up my screen to 1024x768, but I still couldn´t manage to do it with my own compiled kernel

I tried with
Device drivers --> Graphics support -->
[*] Support for frame buffer devices

<*> Vesa VGA graphics support

And i tried both with vesafb and vesafb-tng

In my grub.conf I tried with video=vesafb:mtrr,1024x768@85, for the vesafb compiled kernel and with mode=1024x768@85 for the vesafb-tng compiled one.

Well, all help would be appreciated

Thanks

Saludos

Sas

PS: In case there's anybody around there playing with VmWare and gentoo, here's a hint. To use the scsi disk that VmWare tells you to create by default, compile the kernel with
Device drivers - SCSI device support
<*> SCSI disk support
SCSI low-level drivers
<*> BusLogic SCSI support

[Gherald]

suggest you play around with colinux and freenx

[opensas]

Well, I've finally solved the thing

Here's a quick and dirty guide to install gentoo 2005 on VmWare 4.5.2


Vmware version: VmWare 4.5.2 build-8848

Host OS: Running on Windows XP Profesional 2002 Service Pack 2

Host Machine: AMD Athlon XP 2600 +

Guest OS : (uname -a) Linux livecd 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 #1 i686 Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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In VmWare

New Virtual Machine

Custom

Linux (Other Linux 2.6.x kernel)

Memory 284 MB

Uset NAT networking

IDE Adapter ATAPI

SCSI Adapters
(X) Buslogic
( ) LSI Logic

Virtual Disk Type
( ) IDE
(X) SCSI (Recommended)

Size: 4GB

Virtual device node: SCSI 0:0 Hard Disk 0

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Follow the handbook to acomplish a stage 3 install

Then compile the kernel with the following options


Processor type and features
Processor family (choose your own)

Device Drivers
SCSI device support
<*> SCSI disk support
SCSI low-level drivers
<*> BusLogic SCSI support (leave only this one

selected)

Device drivers
[*] Support for frame buffer devices
<*> VESA VGA graphics support
VESA driver type (vesafb) (couldn´t make vesafb-tng work)

Console display driver support --->
[*] Video mode selection support
<*> Framebuffer Console suppoer
[*] Select compiled-in fonts
[*] VGA 8x8 font
[*] VGA 8x16 font

Logo configuration --->
[*] Bootup logo
[*] Standard 224-color Linux logo

[*] support for the framebuffer splash

Device drivers
Networking Support --->
[*] Networking support
[*] Network device support
<M> Dummy net driver support
Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --->
[*] Ehternet (10 or 100MBit)
[*] EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers
<*> AMD PCnet32 PCI support

Well, it's working for me, I hope it might be helpful for someone

What I still couldn´t figure out, was how to use the boot theme of the livecd

I mean the fancy gentoo image and the delicate gradient background

Thanks

Sas

[AlchEmysT]

i've had no problems with vesafb-tng on vmware 4.5.2
XP host ,Gentoo guest

my video line looks like

[opensas]

You're right AlchEmysT

The problem was that I tried with

[AlchEmysT]

for the sound card i loaded the ensonique drivers i think (don't have access to xp right now - using gentoo )
and alsa in the USE flags and it would work perfectly. do an lspci and lsmod to find the hardware needed. But now i always disable the sound and usb cuz the sound always mutes my volume in XP and i don't use usb with vm's.
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[opensas]

The fbsaplsh HowTo was marvellous

Thanks

And there's an excelect article about configuring the 2005 LiveCD splash theme in the latest
Gentoo Newsletter

http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050418-newsletter.xml

Saludos

Sas