Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 15:18:52 +0000 From: lists@mediumgreen.com To: Jason Vervlied <jvervlied@hway.net>, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with vmware2 Message-ID: <20010714191845.ABE0237B403@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Message from lists@mediumgreen.com of "Wed, 11 Jul 2001 19:33:16 GMT." <20010711233328.9A8EB37B403@hub.freebsd.org>
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I think I heard lists@mediumgreen.com say: >I think I heard lists@mediumgreen.com say: >> >>I've been having exactly the same problem for a week or so. I was using >>vmware without trouble for the past year+. I recently upgraded my X >>server to 4.1.0 and think that this might be related. I also converted >>my mouse to a USB mouse. Which version of XFree86 are you running? > >I'm pretty certain that it's a problem with my X server. I've tried >starting up vmware on a remote display and it works fine (although >slow, of course). Whenever I try starting it on my local display, >I still get the freezing of the mouse and machine rebooting. I'm >using XFree86 4.1.0 from ports with the mga driver that comes with >the distribution. Jason - do you have a similar configuration? Well.. I downgraded my X server to XFree86 4.0.3 and moved my mouse back to the ps/2 port instead of using the USB port. VMware still crashes my machine when I try to "power" it on. I'm at wits end on this and even considering downgrading to Linux.. as much as I hate windoze, I've got to be able to run windoze applications sometimes... staroffice doesn't have templates for avery labels, the full acrobat doesn't run on freebsd, etc. For that matter.. even if star office could do labels it probably wouldn't matter since it usually doesn't work either (that sofficerc file missing problem that most people seem to have). Anyway... does anyone have any other suggestions on what to do about this before I try something drastic like installing Linux? -matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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