[Foresight-distro] Re: Foresight VMware appl not coming up in GUI

[Ken VanDine]

Mind trying to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, replacing "vesa" with "vmware".
Does that work?

--Ken

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 07:02 -0700, John Douglas Porter wrote:
> Hi. I just grabbed the Foresight VMware appliance from 
> http://www.rpath.com/rbuilder/project/foresight/
> 
> And when I boot it, it just leaves me at a console login
> prompt. 
> 
> After a minute or so, a message hits the console including
> the following text:
> 
> Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>         At least one Device section is required.
> (EE) Error parsing the config file
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> Failed to start the X server
> 
> and so on.
> It seems a bit odd to me that a ready-to-run VMware
> instance of Linux would be published in this condition.
> 
> Advice?
> 
> thanks,
> John D. Porter
> 
> 
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