[oi-dev] vmware driver for xorg broken? (spaces replace much of what I type)

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 09/ 8/16 09:47 AM, Michael Kruger wrote:
> On 09/08/2016 11:38 AM, Gordon Ross wrote:
> I don't mean to highjack your thread, but am curious how you have managed to
> load the vmware driver.
> On a fresh install in VMware player, when I run the modinfo command, I only see
> the vga driver loaded.
>
>  92 fffffffff7ccc000   4898 276   1  vgatext (VGA text driver)
>
> The vmware(7) man page suggests the vmware video adapter should be auto-detected
> and automatically load the vmware driver.
> This however does not seem to be the case.

modinfo only shows kernel drivers, not Xorg drivers, since Xorg drivers are just
*.so's dlopen'ed by a userspace process, not loaded into the kernel address space.

To see what drivers Xorg loaded, either check Xorg.0.log or run pldd on the Xorg
process.

	-alan-