Re: VMWARE AND X
Kent West, 2003-Apr-07 10:48 -0500:
> Valter G. Nogueira Jr. wrote:
>
> >I am unable to configure Woody's X server on a vmware machine.
> >
> >Vmware is running on as W2K host.
> >
> >I did a plain install - no running tasksel. After I instaled
> >x-window-system-core pack.
> >
> >Every time I start X (startx), it seems that it will start, a X window
> >pattern and a mouse pointer appear on the screen and suddenly it goes
> >down.
> >
> >I tried several things including using X 4.2 from blade, using X 4.1
> >with a new version of vmware.o driver.
> >
> >Does anyone have a tip?
> >
> >Thank a lot
> >
> >Valter
> >
> >
> >
>
> It sounds like you don't have any clients running (such as a window
> manager); if the server doesn't have any client's, it'll do just start
> up, look around and say "Huh; no clients to run; I must as well quit and
> go home", and promptly does so.
>
> Try creating a file in your home directory named .xinitrc and put the
> single line in it:
> icewm
> (or whatever window manager you want to run, or client for that matter,
> such as "xterm")
> and see what that does for you.
>
> Kent
In addition, be sure to install the VMware host tools which replaces
/etc/X11/XF86config-4 with one that VMware requires.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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