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rawfool

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Registered: 2011-09-27

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Unable to start Xorg on VMware

I've installed Arch Linux in VMware and everything was fine until starting X. followed the documentation & finally tried startx. But I got the following error messages.
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(EE) Failed to load module "vmware" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

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Please help me with this. Thanks.

Last edited by rawfool (2011-09-30 13:42:04)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,673

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to start Xorg on VMware

You need to install drivers for xorg.

$ Pacman -Ss vmware

will help you to find the driver.

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rawfool

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Registered: 2011-09-27

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to start Xorg on VMware

Thanks dude. It worked.