Bug 431830

Summary: Fedora 9 Alpha Graphical Install Broken In VMWare Player
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bruce A. Locke <blocke>
Component: xorg-x11Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
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Failed 'startx' screen scrape none

Description Bruce A. Locke 2008-02-07 07:07:33 UTC 
Description of problem:

During attempts to boot the i386 install DVD of the first Fedora 9 Alpha release
in VMware player the X server will not start.  It briefly flashes a message
about being unable to start X with the VESA driver.  Shouldn't it be using the
VMWARE specific driver?


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

VMWare Player 2.0.2 (host OS is Windows XP x86)
Fedora 9 Alpha DVD iso for x86

How reproducible / Steps to Reproduce:

Create a vmware VMX bundle using easyvmx.com and attempt to install Fedora 9
Alpha.  Happens every time here.
Comment 1 Ben McCann 2008-02-07 11:19:26 UTC 
Created attachment 294199 [details]
Failed 'startx' screen scrape

I got hit by this too. I logged in as root and tried to 'startx' manually. The
X server (or, more accurately, the dynmamic linker) reported that vmware_drv.so
had an undefined symbol PictureScreenPrivateIndex.

I'll attach a screen shot from this shell.
Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-02-07 18:18:30 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 431593 ***