On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 06:45:31PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Yesterday, I turned off CONFIG_FB_VGA16 and CONFIG_FB_VESA while > trying to diagnose my problem. They do not seem to make any > difference to -vga std or -vga cirrus. > > Then I tried -vga vmware. No console framebuffer, so it did not > manage to change to the 12x22 font. And no vmware driver. X stopped > with some of the log output visible, and no prompt. I was able to > key Ctrl-C in the qemu window and get a prompt back. The log showed > that /dev/dri/card0 was not present, so modesetting got unloaded, > and of course I had no other drivers. > Boy, I'm rusty on this!
Finished the firefox build, discovered that those two settings made no difference to getting a console framebuffer, then eventually recalled that I needed to boot with vga=790 to get a framebuffer with the vmware driver. Then I tried building the cirrus, fbdev, vesa and vmware drivers. Cirrus does not build - unknown type name 'PCITAG' Google found a couple of references in build logs from last year, but no solutions. I am reminded that fedora has dropped this because it is incompatible with KMS. The others built. With -vga vmware the drivers loaded are vmware, modesetting (fails, because /dev/dri/card0 doe not exist), fbdev, vesa and it runs with vmware. But like Pierre saw, there is no visible mouse cursor. On icewm I was able to move my mouse from the host's desktop to the end of the taskbar with the menu, move up onto that, click, and move across to shutdown. And I got a console prompt after that, on my normal black background. So, I agree about the missing mouse cursor with the vmware driver in qemu. Pierre, do you have a consolidated patch ? But as to why it does not log out cleanly for you, I suspect it might be a kernel config issue. I'll attach my gzipped config (vert32 in the name should be virt32, smp4 because my previous config only allowed 2 processors and this one goes up to 4, highmem for highmem64G to get the maximum memory). ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.
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