vmware3 on FreeBSD 6.2 - minor (?) svga problem ...

[Gore Jarold]

Scott,

--- Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:

> I have a little howto on vmware at  
> 
> 
> http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1534
> 
> The only thing I see missing with your description
> is that sometimes,
> I've found I had to restart after adding the device
> hint mentioned in
> that article.  Also, did you start the shell?  (It
> was in /usr/X11R6 but
> if you did /usr/local it should be in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
> 
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/001.vmware.sh start
> (or, if you took defaults /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d)


Ok, I put the hint:

hint.apic.0.disabled="1"

into /boot/device.hints

and then rebooted.  But the error persists.

No, I do not start with the 001.vmware.sh script -
when I run it with the 'start' argument, all it does
is echo the word:

VMware

and does not do anything.  I can start vmware by
simply typing "vmware" at a prompt, but the script
itself does nothing at all (except echo the word
"VMware").  THe same is true if I run it with an
absolute path:

/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/001.vmware.sh start

Everything else seems to be set up just fine ...
kldstat shows me:

Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1   17 0xc0400000 39bb3c   kernel
 2    7 0xc079c000 1adb8    linux.ko
 3    1 0xc07b7000 4a47b4   nvidia.ko
 4    1 0xc0c5c000 59f20    acpi.ko
 5    1 0xc6da9000 8000     vmmon_up.ko
 6    1 0xc6db1000 2000     vmnet.ko
 7    1 0xc6db3000 4000     if_tap.ko
 8    1 0xc6dba000 6000     linprocfs.ko
 9    1 0xc6dc0000 2000     rtc.ko

and I have the linprocfs mounted, the apic hint in
place, etc.

Comments ?

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