Bug 54911 - X server fails in vmware guest
Summary: X server fails in vmware guest
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86   
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Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386 Linux
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Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cg...
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Reported: 2001-10-23 03:50 UTC by Chaskiel Grundman
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-10-23 03:50:09 UTC
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Description Chaskiel Grundman 2001-10-23 03:50:05 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9 i686; Nav)

Description of problem:



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install rh7.2 inside a vmware guest
2. run startx

Actual Results:  X and gnome should start up

Expected Results:  the server aborts. Relevant error text is:
Symbol mfbQueryBestSize from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.o
 is unresolved!

...
        This should not happen!
        An unresolved function was called!

Fatal server error

Additional info:

Adding 
Load "mfb"
to the Modules section allows the X server to start.
(It crashes soon after that, but that may be because I'm using a beta
of vmware 3. The problem in _this_ report shouldn't be dependent on that)
Comment 1 Chaskiel Grundman 2001-10-23 04:36:23 UTC 
It looks like this is actually an upstream issue in 4.1.0.
Silly me.
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