On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Waidat Chan wrote: >Dell C610 Latitude SXGA (1400 x 1050) >Running Redhat 7.3 in VMware workstation 3.2.0. >According to the Dell site, I have an ATI Mobility M6. Installation of Red Hat Linux into VMware is completly unsupported by Red Hat. >lspci unfortunately tells me that my controller is: >00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMWare Inc: Unknown device 0405 No, that's not unfortunate, it is 100% accurate. Inside VMware, your real video card is not ever seen by the operating system being installed into the virtual machine. The video hardware is emulated by VMware, and shows up as the above special VMware video card of device ID 0405. >Graphical install of Redhat is possible in 7.3, but not in 8.0, >unsure of what graphics mode in which the install took place. >I have installed XF86Free 4.2.0 on 7.3 Installation may or may not work, however it is unsupported by Red Hat in either case. >Have been trying both Xconfigurator and xf86config. >Have so far tried: [SNIP] None of those choices will work because inside VMware you do not have an ATI Radeon Mobility. You have a "VMware Inc unknown device 0405" and no video driver for it because it is unsupported by Red Hat. In order for it to work, you need to install the vmware XFree86 driver from VMware's website. >6) >All the modes (although not ATI Mobility M6 LY - unable to find >that option) as specified in the Dell C610 list on linux-on-laptops.com Yep, but again, inside VMware, it isn't an ATI Radeon Mobility anymore. >Attempting to run startx at the text prompt with both the window maximised >and 'window-sized' gives a 'No Screens found' error for all the ones tried. Because there is no vmware driver in RHL. >Does anyone have any recommendations that I could try? Given that the >first graphical install worked, there must be something really, really >basic I can use initially. The first graphical install uses the kernel framebuffer, and so is unrelated to the runtime environment. Red Hat Linux 8.0 installer doesn't use FBDev anymore, it uses the native driver or the vesa driver. In any release of Red Hat Linux, the GUI installer tool working to install the OS is completely unrelated as to wether or not XFree86 will work on the system or not. >Is the issue with the non-identification of the controller the >problem? Is that a VMware issue? Or an X86Free thing? The controller is identified properly as an unknown VMware video device. The driver just is not present, it is on VMware's website somewhere. The pcitable does not have an entry for it because there is no driver to map it to, as it's unsupported. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
