i was running with quiet mode disabled but just to be sure i added a printk statement to vmw_fb_init and it does appear in the output. current patch: http://pastebin.com/4g0Pw5Bg
dmesg output: $ dmesg | grep vmw [ 2.014495] vmwgfx 0000:00:0f.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 2.041379] vmw_fb_init called [ 2.055168] [drm] Initialized vmwgfx 2.3.0 20111025 for 0000:00:0f.0 on minor 0 [ 11.613973] init: vmware-tools pre-start process (1744) terminated with status 1 $ dmesg | grep fb_fix (nothing) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-vmware in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1328898 Title: VMware guest video broken by the 3.2.0.64 kernel update Status in “xserver-xorg-video-vmware” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: See detailed discussion here on the VMWare board: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2388776 I can confirm that downgrading to 3.2.0.63 works, and booting into 3.2.0.64 causes the "split screen" issue. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-vmware/+bug/1328898/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
