On 21/2/19 11:28 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 23:00 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Putting the following section in xorg.conf caused Gnome under Xorg to
> start with the resolution of the Maximized vmware player, which was
> 1600x844, as desired. KDE did not start at the resolution of 1600x844,
> instead starting at 640x480, but the display configuration facility
> including 1600x844 as one of the resolutions it now provided, which then
> switched KDE into the desired resolution.
>
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Unknown"
> ModelName "Unknown"
> # HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
> # VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
> Modeline "1600x844_60.00" 110.75 1600 1696 1856 2112 844
> 847 857 876 -hsync +vsync
> Option "PreferredMode" "1600x844_60.00"
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
Glad it worked out.
Note that if you actually want to use the Nvidia card to its full
capability within a VM, you need to use GPU passthrough. AFAIK this
currently cannot be done in VMware or Virtual Box, only on KVM/QEMU.
It's something of a hassle to set up and depends on certain features of
your motherboard and BIOS, but I use it to run Windows games and it
works very well.
I orginally wanted to install Fedora as my main operating system, with
Win 10 (for running games) and Ubuntu running in VM's under that, but
the live cd installer not being able to see any devices with the bios
running in raid mode put paid to that. But in preparation for doing that
I googled graphics hardware acceleration in both vmware and virtualbox
to decide which I would use. Virtualbox said it provided 3D hardware
acceleration if you downloaded its graphic tools, whereas vmware said it
provided 3D acceleration via a config setting as long as you used the
appropriate video driver, which I took to mean I could use my standard
Windows Nvidia Proprietary driver. My assumption that I could use the
Linux nvidia driver the same way I thought the windows driver could be
used seems to be misfounded.
regards,
Steve
>
> poc
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