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

[John Douglas Porter]

Interestingly, my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is empty.
It is dated 2006-03-06.

Thanks,
jdp

----- Original Message ----
> From: Ken VanDine <ken at rpath.com>
> To: John Douglas Porter <johndporter at yahoo.com>
> Cc: foresight-distro at lists.rpath.org
> Sent: Friday, May 2, 2008 10:45:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [Foresight-distro]  Foresight VMware appl not coming up in GUI
> 
> 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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