sles terminal not working in vmware

Madd the Sane · 01-25-2007, 02:44 PM

After I installed VMware tools on a SuSE Enterprise server, whenever I try to access a virtual terminal by pressing ctrl-alt-space-f2 , it displays a strange screen, I.E. it looks like I have two terminals with a nigh-unreadable font. Any ideas on how to fix this without removing vmtools? I have VMware Workstation 5.5.3 running on Windows XP. The host is SLES version 9

dbogdan · 01-26-2007, 07:33 AM

This might be apples and oranges but it sounds similar enough to suggest...

I do this by default on all of my SLES VM's because (for me) it solves the multiple screen issues.

http://www.vmware.com/community/mess...ssageID=541988

Although the article talks about doing this _during_ the install you can easily Add x11i=fbdev to your /boot/grub/menu.lst of an existing VM after the fact.

Madd the Sane · 01-27-2007, 02:27 PM

Nope. Didn't work

dbogdan · 01-27-2007, 04:31 PM

I forgot to mention, that you will need to restart your VM after making this change... if you haven't already restarted give it a shot..

Madd the Sane · 02-04-2007, 11:04 PM

It works now. Thanks