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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:17:23 -0700
From:      Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu>
To:        Matthew Whalen <mwhalen@uucom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vmware2 and xfree86-4.0.1
Message-ID:  <396E4E03.EF4C6CE9@owp.csus.edu>
References:  <200007131544.LAA21770@tangerine.uucom.com>

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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


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