[Techtalk] VMWare under Mandrake

[Gene Dolgner]

First of all, thanx to Liz and Malcolm for your suggestions to solve
this problem.  Between your suggestions and looking around on the Web, I
suspected that my X was too old.  My Mandrake 8.0 was using something
like XFree86 3.3.8 or 3.8 or something 3 like that.

I had several other nuisance problems, as well, and have hardware at
home to assemble into a new Linux box (to start moving away from my
other MS machines), so just decided to get Mandrake 8.1 and do the
upgrade.  The box noted that it contained XFree86 4.1, so I figured it
couldn't hurt.

Not only didn't it hurt, the upgrade was a breeze, and it fixed ALL the
nuisance problems!  I must say that Mandrake makes it easy to get Linux
within reach.  Nice package.

My only complaint with the upgrade is that now half of my HTML HowTo's
are missing, everything that starts with M thru Z.  Hmmmm.  I'm sure I
can get them off the Web somewhere, but I thought it odd that it would
just drop part of them like that.  Anyone else had this happen with
8.1?  Reinstalling just the documentation didn't help.

Thanx again, Gene

Liz Young wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> With Mandrake 8.0, /dev/rtc is 10,135 (ls -l /dev/rtc)
> In /etc/modules.conf add the line, "alias char-major-10-135 rtc"
> 
> I had the same problem with Mandrake/DGA and no full-screen mode
> (onboard Intel815 chipset) but never resolved it , sorry.  I just lived
> without full-screen until I migrated to SuSE and now it works.  I
> _think_ maybe DGA support works with XFree86 v4.10 and up (not distro
> specific).
> 
> -Liz
> 
> On Friday 15 February 2002 10:35 am, Malcolm wrote:
> > 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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