Hello,
Currently I'm running Debian in VMWare on Windows XP (sorry, it's a laptop from my company on which I'm not allowed to install Linux). I've installed the VMWare tools and my xorg.conf is configured to use the VMWare video driver. However, I find the video performance extremely slow at the moment, especially when resizing or moving windows. I'm running on a fast Dell Latitude D820 (Core 2 Duo 2Ghz with 2GB RAM, Linux gets around 1.3 GB RAM in the virtual machine).
I tried to figure out if the vmware driver is actually loaded. So I did an 'lsmod' and the only vmware modules listed are 'vmxnet' (network driver) and ' vmhgfs' (filesystem driver):
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Module Size Used by
vmxnet 11200 0
vmhgfs 39760 0
ppdev 8676 0
lp 11012 0
ipv6 225984 12
dm_snapshot 15552 0
dm_mirror 19152 0
dm_mod 50232 2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
loop 15048 0
tsdev 7520 0
parport_pc 32132 1
parport 33256 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
psmouse 35016 0
rtc 12372 0
i2c_piix4 8140 0
intel_agp 21148 1
agpgart 29896 1 intel_agp
serio_raw 6660 0
i2c_core 19680 1 i2c_piix4
shpchp 33024 0
pci_hotplug 28704 1 shpchp
evdev 9088 1
pcspkr 3072 0
floppy 53156 0
ext3 119240 1
jbd 52456 1 ext3
mbcache 8356 1 ext3
ide_generic 1408 0 [permanent]
sd_mod 19040 3
ide_cd 36064 0
cdrom 32544 1 ide_cd
generic 5476 0 [permanent]
pcnet32 30692 0
mii 5344 1 pcnet32
mptspi 16136 2
mptscsih 21696 1 mptspi
mptbase 46176 2 mptspi,mptscsih
scsi_transport_spi 22336 1 mptspi
scsi_mod 124168 4 sd_mod,mptspi,mptscsih,scsi_transport_spi
piix 9444 0 [permanent]
ide_core 110504 4 ide_generic,ide_cd,generic,piix
thermal 13608 0
processor 28840 1 thermal
fan 4804 0
So, next I did a cat on the Xorg.0.log file to see whether it loads the vmware driver. It gives this output:
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(II) LoadModule: "vmware"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so
(II) Module vmware: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) VMWARE: driver for VMware SVGA: vmware0405, vmware0710
(--) Chipset vmware0405 found
(--) VMWARE(0): VMware SVGA regs at (0x1060, 0x1061)
(--) VMWARE(0): caps: 0x000083E2
(--) VMWARE(0): depth: 24
(--) VMWARE(0): bpp: 32
(--) VMWARE(0): vram: 16777216
(--) VMWARE(0): pbase: 0xf0000000
(--) VMWARE(0): mwidt: 2360
(--) VMWARE(0): mheig: 1770
(--) VMWARE(0): depth: 24
(--) VMWARE(0): bpp: 32
(--) VMWARE(0): w.red: 8
(--) VMWARE(0): w.grn: 8
(--) VMWARE(0): w.blu: 8
(--) VMWARE(0): vis: 4
(==) VMWARE(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) VMWARE(0): RGB weight 888
(==) VMWARE(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) VMWARE(0): Using HW cursor
(==) VMWARE(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) VMWARE(0): vmware: Using hsync range of 1.00-10000.00 kHz
(II) VMWARE(0): vmware: Using vrefresh range of 1.00-10000.00 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Clock range: 0.00 to 400000.00 MHz
This looks to me that Xorg loads the VMWare driver. But why isn't it listed when I do an lsmod ????
I'm new to Xorg configurations (configured a lot of XFree in the past) and I can't figure out why a module that seems to be loaded by Xorg doesn't show up in an lsmod. This is also the reason that I'm still wondering if my poor video performance in VMWare is due to the fact that there's something going wrong when the video module is loaded.
Does someone know if this the correct behaviour (modules loaded by Xorg not listed in lsmod) or that there is something wrong?
Thanks for your help.