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October 14th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , ,

Well, I finally managed to get a higher resolution in VMware, at least with Slackware 4.0I discovered that VMware-server 1.0.7 still includes the drivers for XFree86 3.* & 4.*
In XFree86 3.* there is a separate "server" for each type of interface: one for monochrome cards (who remembers Hercules?), one for simple VGA, one for SVGA, [...]

October 12th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , ,

After successfully installing Slackware 3.5 and discovering that Slackware 1.1.2 was still available on the internet at sunsite.unc.edu I simply had to try it…
At first I had no luck, as this version does not support the standard VMware network card (PCnet32) and also lacks support for IDE CDRom drives. The VMware emulated SCSI cards (BusLogic [...]

October 11th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , ,

Finally got X working on my Slackware 3.5 installation.Well, not perfectly, but good enough to capture a screen:

I had to configure X by editing XF86Config that's stored in /etc in this version.After some tweaking I got it to work with the basic "generic vga" driver, with a resolution of 640×480. It should work with higher [...]