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From: "Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@gnu.org>
Subject: [9fans] rio startup fails in VMWare Fusion 2.0.0
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:08:12 +0800

...so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest and greatest Fusion release,  
but things are even worse.

If I boot from the iso, and select option '2' for the livecd option  
and taking the defaults of ps2 mouse, 640x480x8 resolution and xga  
monitor, I get the following error messages:

   aux/vga: vgactlw: <linear 0x3e80000 0x0>: unknown vmware id 0740
   rio: can't open display: initdisplay /dev/draw/new: no frame buffer
   init: rc exit status: rio 9: display open

And then the boot sequence starts /bin/rc, and I get a 'term%' prompt.

Is this also related to bit rotted vmware drivers?

Cheers,
	Gary
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