Fedora 17 Beta Observations

[Adam Jackson]

On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 14:02 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 21:32 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >         On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:29 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> >         > The VM I used had 1GB of memory.
> 
> >         Does the 'basic graphics mode' option work?
> 
> > OK, dug into the logs, at the tail end of the X.log file is a Seg
> > Fault loading.  I am attaching the X.log file.  Basic graphics mode
> > does work, however the buttons along the bottom are not visible.
> 
> 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?

Yes, if it's loaded it should work and be preferable to vesa.

- ajax
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