I'm running VMware 4. How do you get VMWare to boot off the cdrom? It's always going to the LILO. Is there a bios option somewhere?
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Ok...I got it to boot the cd. I tried the XF86Config-4 file from when I boot knoppix within VMware. It actually took me to the Gnome boot screen. Now the problem is that the mouse on my laptop won't move, but the mouse was working when I was using Knoppix.
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I don't know why you would be having mouse problems. Have you checked the XF86Config-4 that you backed up and tried to modify your current XF86Config-4 file to match your old XF86Config-4 files mouse settings?
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yeah...let me double check it tho...right now this is the XF86Config-4 file I got from knoppix...before I used the knoppix file the mouse has never worked. So I'm not sure how to do it.
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer" # Serial Mouse not detected # USB Mouse not detected EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX" # Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF... FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" # FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi" # FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi" # True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig! FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType" EndSection Section "Module" Load "ddc" # ddc probing of monitor Load "GLcore" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts Load "speedo" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "record" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Serial Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Microsoft" Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "PS/2 Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "USB Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "5" EndSection # Auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Option "DPMS" "true" # HorizSync 28.0 - 78.0 # Warning: This may fry very old Monitors HorizSync 28.0 - 96.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors VertRefresh 50.0 - 76.0 # Very conservative. May flicker. # These are some Modelines that happen to work on many systems # Especially the "1024x768" has been thoroughly tested, even on Laptops Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 #60Hz Modeline "800x600" 40.12 800 848 968 1056 600 601 605 628 #60Hz Modeline "1024x768" 85 1024 1056 1152 1360 768 784 787 823 Modeline "1152x864" 92 1152 1208 1368 1474 864 865 875 895 Modeline "1152x864" 110 1152 1240 1324 1552 864 864 876 908 Modeline "1152x864" 135 1152 1464 1592 1776 864 864 876 908 Modeline "1152x864" 137.65 1152 1184 1312 1536 864 866 885 902 -HSync -VSync Modeline "1280x1024" 80 1280 1296 1512 1568 1024 1025 1037 1165 Interlace Modeline "1280x1024" 110 1280 1328 1512 1712 1024 1025 1028 1054 Modeline "1280x1024" 126.5 1280 1312 1472 1696 1024 1032 1040 1068 -HSync -VSync Modeline "1280x1024" 135 1280 1312 1456 1712 1024 1027 1030 1064 Modeline "1280x1024" 135 1280 1312 1416 1664 1024 1027 1030 1064 Modeline "1280x1024" 157.5 1280 1344 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1072 +HSync +VSync Modeline "1280x1024" 181.75 1280 1312 1440 1696 1024 1031 1046 1072 -HSync -VSync Modeline "1600x1200" 162 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +HSync +VSync Modeline "1600x1200" 189 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 -HSync -VSync Modeline "1600x1200" 202.5 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +HSync +VSync Modeline "1600x1200" 220 1600 1616 1808 2080 1200 1204 1207 1244 +HSync +VSync ModeLine "1800x1440" 230 1800 1896 2088 2392 1440 1441 1444 1490 +HSync +VSync ModeLine "1800x1440" 250 1800 1896 2088 2392 1440 1441 1444 1490 +HSync +VSync EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- # sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards #Option "sw_cursor" #Option "hw_cursor" #Option "NoAccel" #Option "ShowCache" #Option "ShadowFB" #Option "UseFBDev" #Option "Rotate" Identifier "Card0" # The following line is auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config Driver "vmware" VendorName "All" BoardName "All" BusID "PCI:0:15:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" # DefaultColorDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection |
Ok. the mouse works now....
now for the main reason I wanted to be able to do this. Bridge my wireless network to this linux. How do I begin to configure this? I selected that option when I first set up the virtual comp |
ok...everything works now. I had my netwrok on NAT instead of bridge.
Thanks for all your help |
One last question. How would I do it so that I'd be able to choose between two differenct XF86Config-4 before linux loads? Is that possible?
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Dammit...for some reason X won't start up agian....and there are no error messages....what the hell just happend?
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Try a cold boot on the virtual machine. I've noticed a little instability in X on my Mandrake install, usually I reboot and all is well again.
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