FC3->FC5 problems - no audio, fonts bad, vmplayer install

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Mon May 29 00:25:03 UTC 2006


> 3) Cannot configure vmware-player. Running vmware-config.pl first
> complains that gcc 4.1.1 is installed while kernel was compiled with
> 4.1.0.
> I forced a yes, continue on that point, and then it got stuck on the
> include path - I gave it
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5-i686/include/
> but it complained:
> The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same
> address space size as your running kernel.
> No idea what to try next...
> 
> 4) Assuming that vmware-player needs complete sources and not just
> kernel-devel, I tried:
> yumdownloader --source kernel, which fails with:
> No Match for argument kernel
> I'm running 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 - is the src not available for that?

You need to go to http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ and download
vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz .  Untar it and run the "runme.pl" (or
whatever it is called) as root.






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