On 2/21/19 6:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 20:29 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: >> On 21/2/19 6:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 2/20/19 1:02 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: >>>> lspci provides the following output for the device: >>>> >>>> 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter >>> As Patrick pointed out, this is clearly not an NVidia device. You can >>> find out which driver is actually handling it, by running "lspci -v". >>> There will be a line with "Kernel driver in use:". >>> >> "lspci -v" gives me the following output: >> >> >> 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter (prog-if 00 >> [VGA controller]) >> Subsystem: VMware SVGA II Adapter >> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 >> I/O ports at 1070 [size=16] >> Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] >> Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] >> [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] >> Capabilities: <access denied> >> Kernel driver in use: vmwgfx >> Kernel modules: vmwgfx >> >> This output is under Wayland. I have previously installed the nvidia >> proprietary driver from Negativo17 via dkms, and from what I can see >> from the Xorg log, Xorg is loading that driver and the corresponding glx >> module just before the message that Xorg can't find any display devices >> to use. >> >> I also checked the xorg.conf file and it specifies to use the nvidia >> driver, should I change it to the above driver or is the above driver >> unique to Wayland? > The driver has nothing to do with Wayland as such. Clearly an Nvidia > driver isn't going to work with a non-Nvidia GPU, which is what your VM > has. If you're loading the Nvidia driver anyway, this may be the source > of the problem. Remove the Nvidia stuff and try again. > Kernel driver in use: vmwgfx vmwgfx is VMWare guest GL driver If it were nVidia it would read Kernel driver in use: nvidia -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
