[Techtalk] VMWare under Mandrake

[Malcolm]

On Thursday 14 February 2002 12:47 pm, Gene Dolgner wrote:

> Please excuse the question if this has been discussed before, I just
> joined the group recently.

No one else answered this, so I'll dig out my meager knowledge of X/DGA.
(Side note: if anyone here knows anything about DGA with touchscreens, I'd 
love to talk to them).

> I'm using a relatively new desktop PC, installed Mandrake 8.0, and then
> installed VMWare on top of that to access the Windows-heavy environment
> here at work.  However, when I proceed to start up VMWare, I receive the
> following message ...

> =====
> No XFree86 DGA support for this X screen.
> XFree86 direct graphics (DGA extension) initialization failed.

Obviously you have no DGA support. The question is why.

Which version of X are you using? Which kernel? What is your graphics card?
Throwing me your X log might help (should be in /var/log/XFree86.0.log)

> The high resolution timer is not currently available
> (/dev/rtc: No such device).  It is possible that another virtual

I have no idea why your realtime clock is inaccessible. Does /dev/rtc exist?



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