Re: Fedora 17 Beta Observations

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On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 11:33 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 14:02 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 21:32 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > >         On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:29 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> > >         > The VM I used had 1GB of memory.
> > 
> > >         Does the 'basic graphics mode' option work?
> > 
> > > OK, dug into the logs, at the tail end of the X.log file is a Seg
> > > Fault loading.  I am attaching the X.log file.  Basic graphics mode
> > > does work, however the buttons along the bottom are not visible.
> > 
> > So it looks for the VMWare 'vmwgfx' driver and it's not there (I'm not
> > sure if that driver is something Fedora would be expected to include, or
> > if it's a 'guest additions' kind of thing). Then it falls back on
> > 'vmwlegacy', which promptly blows up.
> > 
> > ajax, airlied, are we expecting this 'vmwlegacy' driver to work, or
> > should it be suppressed in favour of vesa or something?
> 
> Yes, if it's loaded it should work and be preferable to vesa.

OK, so Mark, it looks like we need you to file a bug on the segfault you
hit when trying to run anaconda with the vmwlegacy driver (as long as
I'm interpreting the log right). Can you do that and link to the bug?
Thanks!
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