On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 07:41:01AM -0700, Norman Zhang wrote: > >>> I installed 9.2RC2 on VMware. I can startx, but when I exit from > >>> the Xwindows. My console is all warped. I get four tiny screens. > >>> The two on the top is identical. Two at the bottom, I can't see > >>> anything, but grided color lines. I need to reboot machine to get > >>> the normal text again. Does anyone know a fix for this? > >> > >> I don't meant to sound flippent, but the best way to handle this > >> problem is to throw VMware out the window, ( at least where this > >> application is concerned ) and install Mandrake on it's own > >> partition and run it natively. I really don't see the sense if > >> running Mandrake in this manner when the support to run it natively > >> exists. > > > > No... I'd actually like to see this fixed as well (I get the same > > behaviour here). > > > > Trust me, having this in vmware is very very convenient. While I'm > > running 9.2/cooker/whatever as my primary desktop, I'm also running > > everything from Mandrake 8.2-cooker in vmware. It's invaluable for > > testing stuff. > > So this happens with 8.2 too. I would like to narrow this down, so I can > submit appropriate bug report to right people. Is this a Mandrake, VMware or > XFree issue? My guess would be the video driver.
8.2 as a guest? I don't get this here... did you install the vmware tools, which has it's own guest driver for X? -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature
