VMware 4.x and FC2T2 - no X - X worked for FC2T1

[Phil Schaffner]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 02:30, Jeremy A. Rosengren wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
> > I am trying to setup the GUI for my vmware installation of test2 and 
> > cannot get X to work yet.

Make sure that in VMware 4.x, x >= 5.1

Posted an XF86Config that works for me  (without vmware-tools) in the
"FC2T2 VMware 4.5.1 (workstation) on WinXPsp1 - Xorg does not work"
thread.

> > 
> >snip<
> > 
> 
> The reason X under VMware doesn't work in FC2T2 is because the 
> vmware-config-tools.pl setup script hasn't been modified to search for 
> Xorg -- it still attempts to look for the XFree86 version and ends up 
> failing because XFree86 isn't there.
> 
> There's a line in the script (which I don't have in front of me or I'd 
> paste the text) that searches for the XFree86 version or returns 0.0.0. 
>   If you change the 0.0.0 to 4.4.0, then /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl 
> script will complete.

Will try that hack on my VM (and see if it breaks X ;^) - thanks.

Phil