> /dev/vgactl says 0xe0000000 has 0x3c0000 mapped. Enough for > 1024x768x4 bytes but not enoug hfor 1280x1024x4 bytes. I > patched vgavmware.c line 179 to allocate 2*vmrd(vm, Rfbsize) > instead of vmrd(vm, Rfbsize) and now I'm able to go into 1280x1024x8 > mode. This is obviously just a hack, I don't know what a > real solution would be (is it possible that the hardware register > returns a different size after changing the mode?)
why would 8 bit color require 4 bytes-per-pixel? - erik