On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 12:37:23PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote: > I'm starting to use vmware, and I love it. However, I can only get 16 colors > with it. Does anyone know how to get the color depth to increase (win98)? > > I'm running it on an amd k6-2 300 with a creative labs RIVATNT card (which it > does not seem to see). It tells me that I have a Standard Display Adapter > (VGA). When I d/l'd the tnt drivers, it warned me that they were not designed > for this adapter.
You need two things in order to get greater resolution in Win98 on vmware: 1. A DGA-compliant X server. There are some modified servers you can download from vmware. I know that at least the SVGA server in potato has this, but am not sure about others or the ones in slink. 2. You need to download the vmware-tools from vmware and install them in Win98. These include a new svga driver (you do not use the driver for your video card -- thing virtual. I'm getting 1024x768 full screen and it works fine. There are many technical support pages on the vmware web site. They also have some news groups that I have found helpful. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
