On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 10:36:07AM -0700, Norman Zhang wrote: > > 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? > > I've found a solution from vmware list. Thought that I should update it here > as well. VMware SVGA drive does not restore proper hardware state after > exiting from SVGA mode. I need to boot to nonfb, and the problem goes away. > Hope this helpful to others too.
So you boot the kernel with append="nonfb"? That seems like a decent solution. -- 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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