On 00:03 Sat 16 Jul , Richard Fish wrote: > Bill Roberts wrote: > > >Richard > > > >I tried all of your suggestions, without success. See inline comments: > > > >Note device and monitor section of xorg.conf at end: > > > >I've had one further idea. I have a 4-port kvm switch (Cybex), it has > >never interferred with anything in the past four or five years. Wonder > >if. . . , maybe that could be having an effect. > > > >One other thought. In full screen, ever other line is black, giving > >the awful looking screen. Couldn't that have something to do with > >interlacing?? Wish I understood all of this better. > > Oh, one more thing. Modelines can be an issue, but only if VMWare and X > are running at different resolutions or color depths. For example, my > normal laptop resolution is 1600x1200. If I go fullscreen VMWare at > 1600x1200 or 1280x1024, everything works normally. However there is > also a 1400x1050 mode in XP, but my hardware doesn't seem to support > that resolution, so if I try to go fullscreen, I get a resolution that > results in a corrupted display for the right 1/3 of the screen. > > So it is possible that a particular modeline could fix that issue for > me, and may be related to why you had to specify modelines previously. > But if the resolution and depth are the same, then the same modeline > should apply whether VMWare is fullscreen or not, AFAIK. > I finally solved the mystery. I copied the modelines generated by the Knoppix 3.6 CD for this monitor into the Monitor section of xorg.conf, and, voila!!, the full screen issues disappeared. Vmware now works like a charm. Maybe it will do something for my mplayer/mythtv issues.
Thanks, Richard, for your ideas. They helped me narrow down the potential problems, and eventually solve the problem itself. Bill Roberts
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