Gentoo at vmware as guest

Matheus Villela · Apprentice Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 263

Hi

All the install process of Gentoo i made at vmware under winxp, and i have used Gentoo as guest because my modem doesn't have a linux driver, i have been made searches at this forum by 2 weeks, gatering information about Gentoo and i don't seach anything about making a migration from Gentoo running as guest os at vmware and normal running, and is this what i need to know, my Gentoo runs perfectly on vmware but I have tryied to make a "normal" run and doesn't have sucess, I tryied to modify XF86Config and -4, XFree -configure, and not works
I don't need a complete guide, just need to know what files and what configs i need to change to make Gentoo run allright
Gentoo is going fine, in 2 months off linux i have been testing some distros, i tried Kurumin, Red Hat, Debian and Mandrake and Gentoo at now is the one that I like more!

slartibartfasz · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 10:13 am Post subject:

please tell us the exact error you get | problem you have - otherwise we wont be able to help you.
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Edweirdo · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:24 pm Post subject:

Some of the main things you need to change are in the kernel. If you use genkernal, you probably don't need to make any changes since it will load the apropriate modules. Remember that the network card and modem and sound card and video card will be complete different.

You definitely need to change the configuration of XFree. XFree86 -configure should be enough to reconfigure your video settings in Xfree. If that doesn't work, try

Matheus Villela · Apprentice Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 263

thanx for the atention!
I don't put my problems just because i need to know the things i must change, my problem is the X that doesn't start, i hade do it XFree -confiure, xf86config, nothing works, i'm using genkernel and when I try to open X after a XFree -configure all becomes black, nothing hapens, and when i do a control+alt+backspace at the screen i see something like
/dev/xxx not found
/dev/yyy not found
/dev/zzz not found
look that xxx, yyy is just examples, but what i understanded thats the video device from vmware is diferent from the device from my computer

slartibartfasz · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:33 am Post subject:

when xfree fails to start u can see the errormessages and warnings like this:

Matheus Villela · Apprentice Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 263

i already seen the log, at the end of the log say something like video device doesn't found, the same thing that I say above but by a diferent font :wink:

The problem is this, Xfree doesn't found my video device

WaaaW · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 6

I saw a lot of drivers for vmware, inc video card driver "vmware". Dit you use these?

Edweirdo · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 2:41 am Post subject:

His system runs fine in VMware, so the problem is in real life. What is your video card? Maybe we can help if you tell us more about your video card and the error message you are getting (other then "not found").
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