On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 20:29 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 21/2/19 6:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 2/20/19 1:02 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > lspci provides the following output for the device:
> >
> > 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter
>
> As Patrick pointed out, this is clearly not an NVidia device. You can
> find out which driver is actually handling it, by running "lspci -v".
> There will be a line with "Kernel driver in use:".
>
"lspci -v" gives me the following output:
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter (prog-if 00
[VGA controller])
Subsystem: VMware SVGA II Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 1070 [size=16]
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: vmwgfx
Kernel modules: vmwgfx
This output is under Wayland. I have previously installed the nvidia
proprietary driver from Negativo17 via dkms, and from what I can see
from the Xorg log, Xorg is loading that driver and the corresponding glx
module just before the message that Xorg can't find any display devices
to use.
I also checked the xorg.conf file and it specifies to use the nvidia
driver, should I change it to the above driver or is the above driver
unique to Wayland?
The driver has nothing to do with Wayland as such. Clearly an Nvidia
driver isn't going to work with a non-Nvidia GPU, which is what your VM
has. If you're loading the Nvidia driver anyway, this may be the source
of the problem. Remove the Nvidia stuff and try again.
poc