Fedora 17 Beta Observations

Mark Bidewell mbidewel at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 13:27:36 UTC 2012


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> So it looks for the VMWare 'vmwgfx' driver and it's not there (I'm not
> sure if that driver is something Fedora would be expected to include, or
> if it's a 'guest additions' kind of thing). Then it falls back on
> 'vmwlegacy', which promptly blows up.
>
> ajax, airlied, are we expecting this 'vmwlegacy' driver to work, or
> should it be suppressed in favour of vesa or something?
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Given that installing GNOME desktop and Base X via yum yields a functioning
desktop, I would assume that the driver is included with Fedora.
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