waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 06:26:18PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > > My Google search turned up > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7456850.html which suggested > VIDEO_CARDS="cirrus modesetting vesa", emerging world, and setting and > running CIRRUS in the guest. I did that. With "-vga cirrus" I get a > framebuffer X display in the Gentoo guest, which looks half-decent. > xrandr reports... > > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096 > VGA-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > axis) 0mm x 0mm 1024x768 60.00*+ > 1280x1024 60.02 > 1280x960 60.00 > 1280x800 59.81 59.91 > 1280x768 59.87 59.99 > 800x600 60.32 56.25 > 848x480 60.00 > 640x480 59.94 > > > There is no documentation for "video_cards_modesetting" or > "modesetting" flags. I filed bug report... > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569082 > > ...asking for it to be documented. "emerge -pv xorg-drivers" doesn't > show it, and there's nothing in /usr/portage/profiles/*.desc > File-attached is the X log. It complains about not finding the > cirrus driver. But when I emerged xf86-video-cirrus, the log > complained that the cirrus driver couldn't be loaded because it > conflicted with a "kernel module" (actually built in).
Have you installed x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting on the guest? Have you compiled the guest kernel with CONFIG_DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU? If yes, then I guess that you don't need xf86-video-cirrus at all. > With "-vga > std" X doesn't start up at all. You probably need to compile the guest kernel with CONFIG_DRM_BOCHS for "-vga std". > Any suggestions for improvement? There is also a kernel option for a KMS enabled DRM driver for the VMware SVGA virtual hardware (CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX). I think that the performance of this driver is better than the performance of the cirrus driver. -- Regards wabe
