Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 vmware SVGA in better shape

[Gregory Casamento]

It unpacked correctly. When I try it I get:

"unsupported bpp 16"

I added a line in the driver to handle the 16 bit case and got it functioning,
but the encoding is wrong so the colors look funny.  

Later, GJC

--- Frederic Stark <fred@almonde.com> wrote:
>  > tar zxvf VMWareSVGA.tar.gz
> > 
> > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> > tar: Child returned status 1
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> > 
> > Even when I try "tar xvf", I still have problems.
> 
> Sorry. The archive was corrupted. I placed an updated one, which is not 
> corrupted.
> 
> <http://www.chez.com/fstark/VMWareSVGA.tar.gz>
> 
> Rewritten from scratch, very verbose comments in source code. Works on 
> my machine, but I'd be happy to know if it works else where. I'd like to 
> know if it fails on someone too. I'd like to know if it works under a 
> linux host (developped and tested on a windows one).
> 
> Resolutions:
>    800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200
> 
> Bit depth:
>    8 bits grayscale, 8 bits color, 16 bits and 24 bits.
> 
> Will override the user depth with what the host is running (to work 
> around limitations in VMWare).
> 
> If you choose a 0x0 resolution, the driver will use the host resolution.
> 
> Note that the artifacts are still present, but I am not really sure if 
> it would occur on every machine (I am the happy owner of a crappy Dell 
> Lattitude C400, which have a lot of video-related problems)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --fred
> 
> 
> 
> 
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