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kelmo - Apr 12, 2008 - 01:15 PM
Post subject: VmWare boot broken

I broke booting in vmware in recent changes to automatic xorg.conf creation. The mouse section is missing (below keyboard section, usually):

Code:

Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier      "VMMouse 0"

        Driver          "vmmouse"

        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"

        Option          "Protocol"              "Auto"

        Option          "CorePointer"

EndSection

The reason was a missing template in fll-xorgconfig package, which would be fixed with following patch:

Code:

--- fll-live-initscripts-3.0.24/share/fll-live-xorgconfig/templates/inputdevice_vmmouse 1970-01-01 10:00:00.000000000 +1000

+++ fll-live-initscripts-3.0.24.vmmouse/share/fll-live-xorgconfig/templates/inputdevice_vmmouse 2008-04-12 22:57:24.000000000 +1000

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@

+Section "InputDevice"

+       Identifier      "@@NAME@@"

+       Driver          "vmmouse"

+       Option          "Device"                "@@DEVICE@@"

+       Option          "Protocol"              "@@PROTOCOL@@"

+       Option          "@@COREPOINTER@@"

+EndSection

Thanks to a buch of people for spotting and debugging, sorry to affected users.

michaa - Apr 12, 2008 - 01:25 PM
Post subject: VmWare boot broken

is there a way to fix the downloaded iso?

kelmo - Apr 12, 2008 - 01:26 PM
Post subject: RE: VmWare boot broken

This patch should probably be added too:

Code:

--- fll-live-initscripts-3.0.24/debian/fll-live-xorgconfig.fll-xorgconfig.init  2008-04-05 19:39:33.000000000 +1000

+++ fll-live-initscripts-3.0.24.vmmouse/debian/fll-live-xorgconfig.fll-xorgconfig.init  2008-04-12 23:23:54.000000000 +1000

@@ -308,6 +308,10 @@ do_start() {

                                XMODULE="vmware"

                                # ...and mouse

                                XCFG_OPTS="${XCFG_OPTS} --input name=VMMouse type=vmmouse device=/dev/input/mice corepointer=CorePointer protocol=Auto"

+                               # disable monitor probe

+                               XNOXRESPROBE="1"

+                               # disable modelines

+                               XNOMODELINES="1"

                                ;;

                esac

        fi

Adding it here, since berlios.de SVN is kaput, so I don't forget it...

kelmo - Apr 12, 2008 - 01:28 PM
Post subject: Re: VmWare boot broken

michaa wrote:

is there a way to fix the downloaded iso?

No. You add the missing section yourself, or use a nice program like Virtualbox, which gets more attention from our tools Wink

michaa - Apr 12, 2008 - 01:39 PM
Post subject: Re: VmWare boot broken

kelmo wrote:

michaa wrote:

is there a way to fix the downloaded iso?

No. You add the missing section yourself, or use a nice program like Virtualbox, which gets more attention from our tools Wink

Actually I am using Virtualbox, I mixed it up with VM when reading your initial post.

DeepDayze - Apr 12, 2008 - 03:36 PM
Post subject: Re: VmWare boot broken

kelmo wrote:

michaa wrote:

is there a way to fix the downloaded iso?

No. You add the missing section yourself, or use a nice program like Virtualbox, which gets more attention from our tools Wink

perhaps could be included in an xdelta (albeit a tiny patch, perhaps including fixes for any other bugs) ?

slh - Apr 12, 2008 - 04:26 PM
Post subject: RE: Re: VmWare boot broken

It neither affects real hardware and only affects non-free software (which is even in a dark legal area of licensing), rest assured that there won't be any xdelta for this issue alone. The fix is simple, use free software like virtualbox-ose.