Public bug reported:
When running under VMWare (tested VMWare player 6.0.2) the display does
not resize correctly. Once the screen width reaches 800 pixels wide it
starts to show the same contents again.
The attached screenshot shows the problem.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
The regression seems to be caused by this commit:
2a4faabafcd8a1911d1dc7ae5699f2ad1103422e
I have just recompiled the kernel with this commit reverted, and now the screen
displays properly again.
This patch was included also in other kernels (Saucy and Precise for
sure).
--
You received this
** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel
Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1339768
Title:
VMWare graphics driver regression
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
It happens too with VMWare Player 6.0.3 build-1895310. I have both
versions, on different machines, and both exhibit the same behaviour.
Both hosts are Windows 7 machines.
The VM was copied from one machine to the other, and was created with VMWare
Workstation, not with Player.
My host is a
Just tried 3.13.0-30.55 with 4e57808 applied and it makes no
difference.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel
Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1339768
Title:
VMWare graphics driver regression
Status in
The virtual hardware version of the VM (taken from the .vmx file) is
virtualHW.version = 7
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel
Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1339768
Title:
VMWare graphics driver
According to this:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1003746
The latest virtual hardware version is 10, while 7 corresponds to VMWare
Workstatio 8.x (the version I used to create the VM).
--
You received this bug notification because you
Creating a new VM with Player (virtualHW.version = 10) and moving over
the old virtual disk makes the problem go away.
Both 3.13.0-30.55 with and without 2a4faabafc reverted work.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel
Packages, which is subscribed to linux in
This problem is exactly the same as
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-
vmware/+bug/1328898 and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1331224
Should it be marked as duplicate?
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel
According to this thread in vmware communities
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/481038?start=15tstart=0 the
source of the problem is that there is a clash between the X.org driver
and the vmwgfx.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel
Packages, which is
10 matches
Mail list logo
