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Okay I am having an issue running VMware 5 in Arch using udev. I can get VMware to install and run in window mode, but the moment I go full screen I get an error stating that it cannot open tty0. On this computer I have the devfs=nomount added to grub.
On another computer I did not add devfs=nomount so I am using devfs instead of udev .. it works perfectly .. also in full screen.
I looked in the /dev directory on the system using devfs and found that tty0 is a link pointing to vc/0 so I thought that if I go to the udev system and just ln -s /dev/vc/0 /dev/tty0 it would work. It ends up going horribly wrong!
I have turned OFF udev on my first system and verified that it works when I mount devfs. Since udev will eventually replace devfs I would like to get it working with udev. Anyone have a clue? The udev rules file is default btw from a new install if you are wondering.
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do you have a customized .rules file in /etc/udev/udev.rules/ ? You should have a line like this:
KERNEL="tty[0-9]*", NAME="vc/%n", SYMLINK="%k"I have VMware 5 working using udev, and it will work in Full Screen Mode. Hope that helps.[/code]
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do you have a customized .rules file in /etc/udev/udev.rules/ ? You should have a line like this:
KERNEL="tty[0-9]*", NAME="vc/%n", SYMLINK="%k"I have VMware 5 working using udev, and it will work in Full Screen Mode. Hope that helps.[/code]
That is wierd. I looked at my udev.rules file and had this:
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# tty devices
SUBSYSTEM="tty", GROUP="tty"
KERNEL="tty[0-9]*", NAME="vc/%n"
KERNEL="ttyS[0-9]*", NAME="tts/%n", SYMLINK="ttyS%n"
KERNEL="ttyUSB[0-9]*", NAME="tts/USB%n"
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All I did was add SYMLINK="tty%n" to the line and it worked fine. Funny thing is, this is the way it looks on all of my installed computers. Is it because I enabled testing?
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Well at this point is it working in Full Screen Mode or not?
Either way I won't be much help... I'll I did was follow the wiki info. That is where I got the changes/additions for udev.rules.
If you have not read the wiki entry, I would do that now.
http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/In … g%20Vmware
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Well at this point is it working in Full Screen Mode or not?
Either way I won't be much help... I'll I did was follow the wiki info. That is where I got the changes/additions for udev.rules.If you have not read the wiki entry, I would do that now.
http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/In … g%20Vmware
Well its working now .... I guess I should have read the wiki ... its right there. The only thing I didnt do was modify the TTY line in udev.
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