Barry - its not clear if the attached kern.log in comment #11 is after you've added vmwgfx to /etc/modules. At any rate, that module is getting loaded about 20 seconds into the boot:
[ 20.863814] [drm] Initialized vmwgfx 2.4.0 20120209 for 0000:00:0f.0 on minor 0 The vmwgfx module is a PCI device driver and should get auto-loaded by udev when it sees the PCI device ID 0x15ad:0x0405 which I can see from your lspci.txt: 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VMware SVGA II Adapter [15ad:0405] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Have you made any external updates to VMware or OS/X ? Also please try 'grep -i vmwgfx /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules*' -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-vmware in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1039157 Title: vmwgfx kernel module not loaded by default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1039157/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
