booting kernel with the following patch http://pastebin.com/NBeRfwYJ and running "dmesg | grep fb_fix" comes back empty, so vmw_fb_check_var is not invoked.
however, in my setup there is a reliably reproducible link between changes to info->fix.line_length and the split screen issue: comment out info->fix.line_length changes => everything's fine, put them back in info->fix.line_length => "split screen" on boot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-vmware in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1328898 Title: VMware guest video broken by the 3.2.0.64 kernel update Status in “xserver-xorg-video-vmware” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: See detailed discussion here on the VMWare board: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2388776 I can confirm that downgrading to 3.2.0.63 works, and booting into 3.2.0.64 causes the "split screen" issue. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-vmware/+bug/1328898/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
