Vmware video driver dual Haiku screens

[kvdman]

It seems that some of the latest revisions (in the last week), have done something to the Vmware video driver. Under Vmware Fusion and build 23813, there are two Haiku screens (see pic).

Removing the driver and using Vesa solves the problem, but the driver is much slower, and unstable (quitting BePDF will jump it into KDL).

Interestingly, the problem can't be duplicated in Virtual Box, as the Vmware video driver works fine there.

[kvdman]

Sorry, I meant rev. 28314.

[umccullough]

A result of hrev28301.

see already-existing discussion here:

​http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/haiku-commits/2008-October/018143.html

I believe the consensus is (and has been for quite some time): Don't use that driver. It already had known problems anyway, for example making it nearly impossible to cope with a KDL.

VESA performance is pretty much already good enough in vmware anyhow, so the driver itself provides no real noticeable gain.

[kvdman]

Thanks for the info, guess this should be left open, Stephan noted in the discussion that:

"it's a problem of not correctly implementing virtual_height in the driver".

And Axel said:

"Since we're in control of the sources, and the vmware driver currently isn't used because of other reasons, I would be against blacklisting, and rather spend the effort on fixing problematic drivers."

[luroh]

Moving out of the R1 milestone.

[waddlesplash]

The VMware driver was outsourced some time ago.