On Monday 22 Sep 2003 9:41 pm, Norman Zhang wrote: > 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.
Hi, Norman. Sorry you had problems. I've put it on the page, and attributed it to NormZ - I presume that's you? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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