From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021217 Description of problem: During installation all sorts of display adapters are displayed in a list. The vmware display driver is not present in this list, making it impossible to correctly configure X during setup (running in vmware). Please add the vmware display driver to the list of supported display drivers so we can choose it during installation. Also, if possible please add auto-detection for this adapter. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot installation from CD (within VMware) 2. continue to X configuration 3. look at driver list Actual Results: vmware display is not present in the list Expected Results: vmware display to be present in the list Additional info:
What are the PCI ID's of the VMWare display device? You should be able to find it using lspci -v and lspci -n.
I think this is it: 00:0f.0 Class 0300: 15ad:0405 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMWare Inc: Unknown device 0405 (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Flags: medium devsel I/O ports at 10c0 [size=16] Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=32K] Is this enough information?
Reassigning to XFree86 component.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70153 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.