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Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

Jae Ellers — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:22:42 GMT

I'm running RedHat 4.5 w/ KDE under WS 6.0.2 on Vista-64.

I cannot get the clipboard cut and paste to work at all.

I've tried dialing in the drivers. I've tried the entire xorg.conf listed above. No joy.

Any next steps?

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

ygor — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:58:33 GMT

Your xorg.conf setup works great but my scroll-wheel button is no longer working.

Any idea?

Thanks

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

KevinG — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:57:20 GMT

Thanks for the update

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

spdivr — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:27:19 GMT

I copied your entire file and replaced mine with it. Worked like a charm!
Thanks!

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

KevinG — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:24:24 GMT

You should have just renamed your xorg.conf file and copied/paste mine into a xorg.cong file.

You are missing the "ServerLayout" change.

InputDevice "Mouse[0]" "CorePointer"

You can use " Alt-Ctl-Backspace" to restart X

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

KevinG — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:21:05 GMT

My mouse moves freely between the host(Windows XP) and (CentOS 5)guest OS and NO vmware-toolbox is running.
The real solution is to use a correctly modified xorg.conf file and the correct mouse driver loaded.
It's the mouse driver that handles the grab & ungrab, the vmware-toolbox process handles the copy / paste

[code]
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "XWorkAround"
InputDevice "Mouse[0]" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse[0]"
Driver "vmmouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "VMware Point Device"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "XWorkAround"
Driver "void"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "vmware"
VendorName "VMware, Inc"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 1.0 - 10000.0
VertRefresh 1.0 - 10000.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "VMware SVGA"
Driver "vmware"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Don't specify DefaultColorDepth unless you know what you're
# doing. It will override the driver's preferences which can
# cause the X server not to run if the host doesn't support the
# depth.
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "VMware SVGA"
Monitor "vmware"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"

# VGA mode: better left untouched
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x400" "640x350"
EndSubSection
EndSection

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Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

spdivr — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:20:29 GMT

Hi Kevin,

I tried what you listed. I edited my xorg.conf, but it didn't seem to work. Here is what mine says (the parts I added from your config are in bold):

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse[0]"
Driver "vmmouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "VMware Point Device"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "XWorkAround"
Driver "void"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vmware"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

KevinG — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:42:09 GMT

The vmmouse driver handle the grab & ungrab. The vmware-toolbox process handles the copy / paste

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

etfong — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:35:03 GMT

I think the key is to make sure the VMware tools have been loaded in the Guest OS and the drivers modules installed in the kernel.

Its best to run vmware-tools-updater and vmware-config-tools.pl to ensure that the drivers are loaded and your config files are good.

You should not need to run vmware-toolbox to get clipboard copy/paste nor any mouse grab controls.

I run Centos 5 x86/x64 guests in Windows Wkstn 6 Host and its been flawless except booting wierdness that does not activate GDM VT.

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

RDPetruska — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:35:31 GMT

What about the clipboard sharing?

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

spdivr — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:22:45 GMT

Ah, I see the difference now. Thanks!

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

RDPetruska — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:03:21 GMT

This is normal?

Normal for what? If you want the toolbox process to be running, it must be running. On Windows guests, you will see an icon for the toolbox process running in the system tray of the guest. On Linux guests, you can minimize/iconify the toolbox... but I don't think too many (if any) Linux window managers understand the concept of the system tray.

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

spdivr — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:14:56 GMT

This is normal?

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

RDPetruska — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:01:16 GMT

You can minimize the window, but you can't close it or the applet is unloaded.

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

spdivr — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:22:24 GMT

I ran that, and it works, except for one thing:

When I run it, a window opens that says "VMware Tools Properties" opens. It has stuff in it that I really don't need, but I don't have to Ctrl-Alt to release the mouse.

However, if I close that properties box, the effect goes away. I can't figure out how to make it work without the box open (or minimized). Also, if I close the command window, it also goes away. I did the SU thing before running it, and without SU. Same effect both times.

Thanks!

null

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

RDPetruska — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:57:35 GMT

When you are logged in and have an X session running, open a new terminal and type 'vmware-toolbox &'. This will launch the toolbox in a separate process, so that you can close the terminal. Yes, you can add this command to your X startup (how will depend on your distro, version of X, and window manager).

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

spdivr — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:43:23 GMT

How can I tell if it's running? Is it separate from the video driver part? It's possible to make it run at startup, correct?

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

RDPetruska — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:35:52 GMT

Some versions of X seem to require that the vmware-toolbox applet be running for the mouse grab/ungrab and clipboard sharing to work.

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

spdivr — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:03:31 GMT

After going through all the steps you listed here and that I found elsewhere, and not having any luck, it looks like I found the answer, and it was a really simple one...

From within X, I went to System > Administration > Display > Hardware tab > Configure button. Then I used the drop arrow to see what other monitors were available, chose Generic LCD 1024x768 and restarted X.

Worked like a charm! I'm really a Linux newb...

I still have an issue with VMware tools, though: Even though mouse and video seems to be fine, I can not cut and paste between the XP host and the Linux guest. Also, I constantly have to hit Ctrl-Alt to get the mouse cursor out of the Linux guest window and back to my XP host desktop. Is this normal, or is there a way to fix that?

Thanks for all the help!

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

RDPetruska — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:24:49 GMT

Yes. That config file looks WAY too short. There are no modelines at all. Search the forum for a (about 2 page long) xorg.conf file KevinG has posted numerous times.

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

spdivr — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:36:56 GMT

Anyone have any ideas?

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

spdivr — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:15:32 GMT

Post your xorg.conf file

Thanks! Here is the text from the file:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vmware"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

KevinG — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:26:28 GMT

Post your xorg.conf file

VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

spdivr — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:40:29 GMT

Hello,
I'm new to Linux and I am trying to get a CentOS 5 server running. The server seems to be up with no problems, and I ran the VMware tools install and configuration. It said that it was not compatible with the kernel, but offered to recompile, and it seems to have worked. After that, it initially had a problem starting X, then reconfigured and X runs, but I can only run the screen in 800x600 or less. This makes it tough to work with some of the graphical boxes.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!