Screen resolution mis-detection typically points to video driver issues, which in this case is vmware:
xserver.video_driver: vmware For the original bug report, looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation, VMWare appears to have gotten Wayland protocol support in version 15.0.0, so presumably wayland was not supported by the driver prior to that, and this bug indicates an earlier version was in use (comment #2 suggests version 10 or 12 were tested with the original report). IOW I think the original issue is a wontfix since wayland wasn't supported with vmware originally. Alexander, invalid video resolution is kind of a generic symptom that can have many different causes. In your case, it sounds like you're running X.org rather than Wayland, and from your logs the vmware driver loaded ok but X was unable to access the underlying framebuffer device, so fell back to default VESA mode resolutions. So, you have some problem unrelated to this bug except by symptom; I'd suggest if you're still having trouble please consult support channels to diagnose, and if you narrow down to a specific reproducible open-vm-tools issue, please file a new bug report with steps to reproduce and all detailed logs and config files. [ 65.360] (II) vmware: driver for VMware SVGA: vmware0405, vmware0710 [ 65.360] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms [ 65.361] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev [ 65.361] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa [ 65.361] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting [ 65.361] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory [ 65.361] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev [ 65.361] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw" [ 65.361] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw" [ 65.361] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so [ 65.361] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 65.361] compiled for 1.20.14, module version = 0.0.2 [ 65.361] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.1 [ 65.361] (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory [ 65.361] (II) vmware(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section "Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32 [ 65.551] (EE) vmware(0): Failed to open drm. ** Summary changed: - open-vm-tools does not work under wayland + open-vm-tools does not work under wayland for VMWare Workstation 12.5 or older ** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712223 Title: open-vm-tools does not work under wayland for VMWare Workstation 12.5 or older To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1712223/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
