From 436f8246cd5a377596f6e42e6562da186ef8df48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: marha Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:07:51 +0100 Subject: libxtrans mesa pixman xkeyboard-config git update 31 jan 2013 libxtrans: bd53f4c8543faf910a7a151241ee07661b4d57ad mesa: a527b2192e3cb4a68af927ab405e38181d2fcf75 pixman: 958bd334b3c17f529c80f2eeef4224f45c62f292 xkeyboard-config: 46cfd7a3b5c6b6e00648407bd4c0dd56ae86d65a --- mesalib/docs/vmware-guest.html | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'mesalib/docs/vmware-guest.html') diff --git a/mesalib/docs/vmware-guest.html b/mesalib/docs/vmware-guest.html index ac5f03c9c..b5f136f33 100644 --- a/mesalib/docs/vmware-guest.html +++ b/mesalib/docs/vmware-guest.html @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ MacOS are all supported.

End users shouldn't have to go through all these steps once the driver is included in newer Linux distributions. +Fedora 18 and Ubuntu 12.10 include the VMware guest GL driver, for example.

@@ -162,6 +163,22 @@ Then sudo cp 00-vmwgfx.rules /etc/udev/rules.d sudo depmod -ae + +Note: some distros put DRM kernel drivers in different directories. +For example, sometimes vmwgfx.ko might be found in +/lib/modules/{version}/extra/vmwgfx.ko or in +/lib/modules/{version}/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx.ko. +

+After installing vmwgfx.ko you might want to run the following command to +check that the new kernel module is in the expected place: +

+  find /lib/modules -name vmwgfx.ko -exec ls -l '{}' \;
+
+If you see the kernel module listed in more than one place, you may need to +move things around. +

+Finally, if you update your kernel you'll probably have to rebuild and +reinstall the vmwgfx.ko module again. -- cgit v1.2.3