Can anyone tell me what the following text means and whether it might apply to my Redhat 7.0 system? (I certainly get quite a few hangs running VMware, although I am otherwise happy with the product.) Kernel is binary RPM from Redhat, 2.2.17-14.
In the following, "Workstation" is the VMware Workstation product (version 2.0). From http://www.vmware.com/support/ws2/ts/install_config_ts_ws_linux.html: > Workstation Incompatible with Linux Frame-Buffer Console Workstation is > not compatible with the Linux Frame-Buffer Console (fbcon) driver. > Running Workstation on a kernel compiled with fbcon support may result in > the entire system hanging. Workstation will improve this problem and > will in future fail with a meaningful message if fbcon is detected. > Reports from the field indicate that running fbset -depth 0 -a before > launching Workstation fixes the problem by switching the virtual terminal > to VGA compatible mode. I installed fbset fbset-2.1-6.i386.rpm and: [root@granite rpms 52]# fbset --verbose Linux Frame Buffer Device Configuration Version 2.1 (23/06/1999) (C) Copyright 1995-1999 by Geert Uytterhoeven Opening frame buffer device `/dev/fb0' open /dev/fb0: No such device [root@granite rpms 53]# ls -l /dev/fb* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 17 2001 /dev/fb -> fb0 crw------- 1 mark root 29, 0 Aug 24 2000 /dev/fb0 crw------- 1 mark root 29, 32 Aug 24 2000 /dev/fb1 crw------- 1 mark root 29, 64 Aug 24 2000 /dev/fb2 crw------- 1 mark root 29, 96 Aug 24 2000 /dev/fb3 crw------- 1 mark root 29, 128 Aug 24 2000 /dev/fb4 crw------- 1 mark root 29, 160 Aug 24 2000 /dev/fb5 crw------- 1 mark root 29, 192 Aug 24 2000 /dev/fb6 crw------- 1 mark root 29, 224 Aug 24 2000 /dev/fb7 [root@granite rpms 54]# Any ideas? Thanks. -- Mark Polhamus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
