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

["Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@gnu.org>]

Hi Frederico,

Thanks for the response!

On 24 Sep 2008, at 02:03, Federico G. Benavento wrote:
> 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?
>
> try "vesa" for monitor and play with different resolutions
> "aux/vga -m vesa -p" should give you some info.

Using "vesa" for monitor along with all of the resolutions I tried
actually
hangs (i.e. I don't even get a text-mode term% prompt), as does "aux/
vga -m vesa -p"
if I type it at the text mode prompt.

Cheers,
	Gary
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