Re: pclinuxos in vmware

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 18:40, Russ Gray wrote:
> The X server on the livecd is based on XFree4.4, which has been roundly
> condemned as incompatible with the GPL. There may also be software
> incompatibility issues, but I know nothing about those.
>
> Russ

Actually I think Xfree4.4RC3 was ok and is what is being used, the gpl
issue came after this release.

>
> On Thursday 27 May 2004 07:27 am, Tim Jordan wrote:
> > I'm running short on PC's and would like to put my pclinuxos box into
> > vmware. I'm running Debian sarge as my workstation with the latest from
> > Vmware. The LiveCD looks like it identifies hardware correctly but the
> > X server is misconfigured.
> > I cannot trouble shoot the XF86config file because the text is so small
> > in shell.

What video driver did you use, svga or the vmware ? You might switch. I
haven't configure a Linux guest though in quite a wwhile :)

> > If this could be resolved I think many people could benefit from testing
> > and developing pclinuxos.
> >
> > P.S. - I think there also may be a problem with eth0 coming up. I
> > remeber I had to tweak a few netconfig files in mandrake 9 under Vmware.

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