I believe there is some kind of command-line switch to vmware to tell it what machine image to boot. You also can get direct graphics working with xfree86 3.3.3 or later; not sure of the specifics here will have to look into it. Regards, Kerry. On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:58:53AM -0400, John Covici wrote: > I have vmware on my Linux box, but the behaviour of x has changed and > I can no longer start it. > > The problem is that what used to happen is that if the mouse was in > the vmware window, I was able to push an ok button for a message which > always comes up by tabbing once or twice and hitting enter or > spacebar. Now the mouse has to be moved over the button and clicked > to get rid of the message and start the vmware boot. > > The message is just to tell you that direct graphics cannot be > initialized and I have never found the way to have that working. > > Is there a way I either can get the old behavior back or what would be > better to create some kind of event to push that ok button > automatically. > > Thanks in advance for any assistance. > > -- > John Covici > covici at ccs.covici.com > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net alternatives: kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ UIN: 8226547
