Hello Christian, Many thanks, yes I've already figured that out. Now its working! have another problem, read my other post. All the best, Christian On 2006-07-30 at 23:09 Christian Schoepplein wrote: >Hi Christian > >On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 06:06:16PM +0200, Christian wrote: >>I am trying to run Vmplayer under my Debian and I am running into a >>problem when launching it. I installed it as root and I have the >>graphical logon screen enabled so I have to press Ctrl-Alt-F1 in order >>to get a text console. >>Then I login as root or whatever user change in to the directory where >>my .vmx file is and type: >>xinit /usr/bin/vmplayer -X Winxp.vmx > >this command only will work if you are not allreade in grafical mode. > >>But it complains that the display is alredy set to 0 and if the server >>is not running anymore i have to delete the lock file. I have tried it, >>but with no luck. So, any ideas? > >Change your system to start into the text based envirornment per >default. > >1. Open the file /etc/inittab >2. Search for a line that should look something like this: > > id:5:initdefault: > >3. Change it to: > > id:2:initdefault: > >No the system starts runleven per default. > >Try to execute the command from above to activate vmplayer. Does this >work? Also it should still be possible to start the grafical frontend. > >>Christian > >Regards, >Christian > >-- >Christian Schoepplein <chris at schoeppi.net> >Manage your communication: http://www.otrs.com >Linux for the blind: http://www.blinux.suse.de > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFEzSACv/+9eWr7D+oRAlX0AKDZa6ObRORDjR/0GytMydxQyNHmmwCePlOb >kCy0Tqr8RWAUvfiWKVdB9UU= >=FXa3 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list