Re: [9fans] rio startup fails in VMWare Fusion 2.0.0

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

try "vesa" for monitor and play with different resolutions
"aux/vga -m vesa -p" should give you some info.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org> wrote:
> ...so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest and greatest Fusion release, but
> things are even worse.
>
> If I boot from the iso, and select option '2' for the livecd option and
> taking the defaults of ps2 mouse, 640x480x8 resolution and xga monitor, I
> get the following error messages:
>
>  aux/vga: vgactlw: <linear 0x3e80000 0x0>: unknown vmware id 0740
>  rio: can't open display: initdisplay /dev/draw/new: no frame buffer
>  init: rc exit status: rio 9: display open
>
> And then the boot sequence starts /bin/rc, and I get a 'term%' prompt.
>
> Is this also related to bit rotted vmware drivers?
>
> Cheers,
>        Gary
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