From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 13 16:20: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A576E37B6B0 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:19:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mail.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.247]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA70433; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:19:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Message-ID: <396E4E03.EF4C6CE9@owp.csus.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:17:23 -0700 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Whalen Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware2 and xfree86-4.0.1 References: <200007131544.LAA21770@tangerine.uucom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Whalen wrote: > > I have a new machine that I'm trying to configure. It's very similar > to my regular home machine (PIII 700 vs K7 700). They both run > 4.0-stable (home was build last about 1 month ago, new machine yesterday). > I have xf86 4 on this new machine, and 3 at home. > > My vmware on the new machine dies cathing with a SIGSEGV and "Abort trap" > being printed to the screen. I know that vmware doesn't officially support > XF86 4, but this doesn't really sound a lot like an Xserver problem > to me. There isn't much in the vmware log to note. Has anyone tried > vmware2 with XF86 4 yet? If so, did you get the same result? Is there > something else going on? > > thank you for any pointers The only way that I've been able to run vmware2 since upgrading to xfree86-4.0.1 is to run it as root. The biggest problem I'm having is that DGA isn't supported on my ATI video card. So it runs, only as root, with out DGA, so not as fast as it could. -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message