Hi Anne, >> 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. >> > Norman, there is a VMWare page at > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/VmWare > > Could you please add that tidbit to it? You are right, it will help > others.
I created account at the above site, logged in. Allowed to edit, preview, but couldn't save the text (some internal errors). Perhaps you may want to help update the site with the following info. Regards, Norman ###Updated Text for Wiki (Please remove this line)### *Running LM as a Guest OS* *Problem:* 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? *Solution:* (from Petr Vandrovec) Mandrake should have created "nonfb" choice in your LILO. Boot this, instead of default configuration - VMware SVGA driver does not restore proper hardware state when exiting from SVGA mode. *Follow-up:* Thanks. That seems to solve the problem. However I do see the following warning =(WW) VMWARE(0): Failed to setup write-combing range (0xf6000000,0x10000000)= Is this critical? *Answer:* (from Peter Vandrovec) No, it is normal. Virtual CPU does not support MTRR registers, and so X server complains. You can ignore it.
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