Dear all,

My name's Edi. I am newbie to Linux. I installed linux Redhat 7.3 on VmWare as a guest OS. The problem is i can't enter to Xwindow. help me...

could you be a little more specific...

are you able to boot RH7.3 guest OS in VMWare and it boots to runlevel 3 (text/console) and you can login and work at the CLI but when you try 'startx' it does not load X ?

does it boot to runlevel 5 (graphical/X) ?

do you get any errors ?

yes, i able enter to runlevel 3. but when i want enter XWindow by typing startx error message appear like below:

.........
( II) Primary Device is : PCI 00:0f:0
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

when reporting......

have you installed the vmware-tools ?

yes, the error like i posted before

what is most likely happening is that it is trying to use the "physical" display (monitor and video card) so you will need to install the vmware-tools so that it uses vmware monitor and video card

if you look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config does it have vmware for the monitor and video card driver ?

it looks like that vmware tools can not be installed untill linux has enter the XWindow.

if you look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config, does it have
or something similar ?

for Section "Device", Driver should be "vmware", if it is not then it is likey trying to use your physical video card and that is what is causing the problem...

yes, I have set that like below:

section "Device"
# no known options
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "VMware"
VendorName "Videcard vendor"
BoardName "VMWare"

#BusID
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600"
EndSubsection

EndSection

but still error:

E(0): Virtual size is 640x480 (pitch 640)
(**) VMWARE(0): Default mode "640x480": 25.2 MHz, 31.5 kHz, 60.0 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "640x480" 25.20 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync
(==) VMWARE(0): DPI set to (75, 75)
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a
(II) Module fb: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.1
(II) Loading sub module "xaa"
(II) LoadModule: "xaa"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libxaa.a
(II) Module xaa: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4
Symbol mfbQueryBestSize from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.o
is unresolved!
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
[0] 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MX[B]
[1] 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MX[B]
[2] 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[4] -1 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[5] -1 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[6] -1 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[8] -1 0xf8000000 - 0xf800001f (0x20) MX[B]
[9] -1 0xf4000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B]
[10] -1 0xf9000000 - 0xf9ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[11] -1 0xfa000000 - 0xfaffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[12] 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IX[B]
[13] 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IX[B]
[14] -1 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[15] -1 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[16] -1 0x00001080 - 0x000010bf (0x40) IX[B]
[17] -1 0x000010e0 - 0x000010ff (0x20) IX[B]
[18] -1 0x000010c0 - 0x000010df (0x20) IX[B]
[19] -1 0x00001060 - 0x0000107f (0x20) IX[B]
[20] -1 0x00001410 - 0x0000141f (0x10) IX[B]
[21] -1 0x00001400 - 0x0000140f (0x10) IX[B](B)
(WW) VMWARE(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xfa000000,0x1000000)
(WW) VMWARE(0): Option "dpms" is not used
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER


This should not happen!
An unresolved function was called!

Fatal server error:



When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.

Are you sure you've installed it before configuring the X Server?
If you choose to install vmware tools before you have configured XFree yet, the installation doesn't take care about X Server!! So, try to re-install your X-Server and then to install vmware tools.