On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 09:15:09AM -0700, Norman Zhang wrote: > >> 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. > > > > What's the host OS? Does all that video corruption happen within the > > VMWare window, or is the whole display messed up? Recent VMWare? (I only > > have and know about 2.x, so rotsaruck if you're on the latest.) > > My host OS is W2K Pro SP4 and am running VMware version 4.02 build-5592. > 9.2RC2 would display the text properly if I boot into console mode. startx > would display properly too. But after I exit from the Xwindows session, the > text mode would be messed up. I get 4 tiny windows (one on each corner), two > on top would be identical, two at the bottom--I can't see anything. The text > from the top two windows are so tiny and fuzzy that I can make anything out > of it. I did install VMware tools. Without it Xwindows won't start. Also > during installation, Mandrake was able to identified the video card as > VMware virtual driver. Is there a way to reset this without reboot the > 9.2RC2?
Not to my knowledge. I've had to ssh in to do a reboot since I kinda like seeing what I type. I guess it would be feasible to boot into X and remain in X... not quite what you want to hear, I'm sure, but whatever you want to do on the CLI can be done from an xterm. (I'd like to see a fix as well, and this may be something that needs to be brought up to the vmware folks, but in the meantime, this might be a half-decent workaround). -- 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}
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