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Old 11-26-2010, 01:27 AM   #1
jiml8
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some annoying issues with OpenSUSE 11.3 as guest in VMware Workstation


I posted a thread in the Virtualization forum regarding my problems with OpenSUSE 11.3 64 bit as a guest in VMware Workstation on a Mandriva 2010.1 32 bit host, but the problem DOES involve OpenSUSE 11.3 so posting something in this forum is also appropriate and might help me get answers.

So if anyone wants to drop by the other thread and tell me what is happening, I'd appreciate it.

By the way, I am posting this message from my "problem child" installation.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...12#post4171412
 
Old 12-08-2010, 05:00 PM   #2
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Moin,

you are not alone - at least with the monitor resolution problem. It's probably not a "virtual machine" but a general error in 11.3 (I'm running a 11.3 installation on a quad core Intel system with a 24" DVI (1920x1200) and a 17" (1280x1024) VGA monitor). The monitors, resolutions and modes are identified correctly every time I start the respective Yast component; I activated the "VGA monitor is right of the DVI monitor" option, the desktop looked wonderful, but when I restarted X or the system, every time the clone mode (1280x1024) was active. I was very angry because the problem was well known and no update was available. I finally found a solution in a forum to override the default (works after login):

Copy the ~/.xinitrc.template file to .xinitrc and add the following lines:
Code:
#
# Add your own lines here...
#
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --auto
xrandr --output VGA-1 --auto --right-of DVI-I-1
You can use more options of the xrandr command to specify your monitor's properties.

In fact I'm a little bit pissed about the way Novell changed the X system - apparently without systematic tests. There were many complaints in XOrg and other forums about failures in the new XOrg startup, but nobody seems to care about :-(

I wonder about my next distribution: I installed my first SuSE in 1995, but the current state (remaining display errors, random audio interface initialization errors, missing updates for these errors...) is more and more annoying.

cu
Jan

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