Created attachment 376046 [details] xorg.conf After installing xorg-x11-server 1.7.1-12 from bug 533620 I have some problems in VMwareWorkstation-5.5.9. When virtual machine starting: A language-specific mapping from X keysyms to machine scancodes will be used, based on the detected keyboard type of "us101", because you are not using an XFree86 server running on the local machine. However, this program's language-specific mapping may not be correct for your keyboard in all the details, because X keyboard mappings vary. You can override specific key mappings in the virtual-machine configuration. When switching virtual machine to full screen mode: Unable to find an appropriate host video mode. Adding the guest mode to the 'display' subsection of the 'screen' section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restarting X is likely to help. Failed to switch to full screen SVGA mode. xorg-x11-server-1.7.1-7.fc12.2.rex from http://rdieter.fedorapeople.org/repo/fedora/12/i386/ don't have problems with vmware.
Created attachment 376047 [details] dmesg
Created attachment 376048 [details] Xorg.0.log
The same problem with xorg-x11-server-1.7.3-1.fc12
Does it work without the nvidia binary driver? ajax, reassigning to you, changes between 1.7.1-7 and 1.7.1-12 are your metier
With vesa driver and xorg-x11-server-1.7.3 vmware have the same problems as with nvidia driver. With xorg-x11-server-1.7.1-7.fc12.2.rex no problems in vmware both with vesa and nvidia drivers.
The problem still is in xorg-x11-server-1.7.4-1.fc12
At first this problem appears in xorg-x11-server-1.7.1-10.fc12 where --with-vendor-name="Fedora Project" was added. I rebuild xorg-x11-server-1.7.4-1.fc12 without --with-vendor-name="Fedora Project" http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1909516 Now vmware can detect xorg server.
The problem still persist with latest updates to Fedora 12 but there is a workaround against this problem. Add the following line to ~/.vmware/preferences xinfo.forceXFree86 = "TRUE" This overrides vmware detection of xorg and keys work as expected. I have tested this with vmware server 1.0.8 and 1.0.10 and according to the docs, this should work with other vmware products as well.
Just to make it clear -- full screen works as well when setting xinfo.forceXFree86 = "TRUE"
(In reply to comment #9) > Just to make it clear -- full screen works as well when setting > xinfo.forceXFree86 = "TRUE" I confirm that fullscreen mode with this settig works for me too.
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