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fernan82

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Registered: 2014-07-02

Posts: 11

X server freezes on VMware

I'm running Arch on VMware workstation 10. When I start the X server I get a black screen (sometimes with a cursor like line on the top left), I can tell it's running because it "traps" the mouse and releases it when it gets to the borders of the screen but CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE has no effect and if I press CTRL-ALT-F(2..)  the cursor line moves to the middle of the screen and everthing freezes (the mouse will no longer be released when it reaches the edges of the screen).

Right now I have the following packages installed:

xf86-video-vmware
xf86-video-vesa
xf86-input-evdev
xf86-input-vmmouse
xf86-vidmodproto

I have installed and uninstalled VMware tools and open-vm-tools always with the same result. Initialy it was freezing from the start with a segmentation fault, I'm not sure what fixed this but I think it was installing the xf86-video-vesa package. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Last edited by fernan82 (2014-07-02 03:55:01)

IMBJR

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From: INDCMPLX

Registered: 2014-03-16

Posts: 88

Re: X server freezes on VMware

You may be affected by this bug:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40781