vmwgfx fails in kvm (running something like kvm -m 2048 -vga vmware -hda ubuntu.img): [ 29.856068] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 29.905192] [drm] Capabilities: [ 29.905196] [drm] Rect copy. [ 29.905197] [drm] Cursor. [ 29.905198] [drm] Cursor bypass. [ 29.905198] [drm] Cursor bypass 2. [ 29.905200] [drm] VRAM at 0xfd000000 size is 16384 kiB [ 29.905201] [drm] MMIO at 0xfe000000 size is 64 kiB [ 29.905203] [drm] global init. [ 29.907091] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 1025792 kiB [ 29.907093] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator [ 29.907097] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator [ 29.907432] [drm:vmw_driver_load] *ERROR* Hardware has no pitchlock [ 29.907475] [TTM] Finalizing pool allocator [ 29.907478] [TTM] Finalizing DMA pool allocator [ 29.907494] [TTM] Zone kernel: Used memory at exit: 0 kiB [ 29.907676] vmwgfx: probe of 0000:00:02.0 failed with error -38
i am having this problem in debian sid with linux-image-amd64 3.13+56. i added vmwgfx to /etc/modules, trying to follow the instruction to load the module at post, from here: http://www.x.org/wiki/vmware/vmware3D/ however, that only gives me the bug earlier than Michael. [ 1.590515] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 1.598096] [drm] DMA map mode: Using physical TTM page addresses. [ 1.598131] [drm] Capabilities: [ 1.598132] [drm] Rect copy. [ 1.598133] [drm] Cursor. [ 1.598133] [drm] Cursor bypass. [ 1.598134] [drm] Cursor bypass 2. [ 1.598135] [drm] VRAM at 0xfd000000 size is 16384 kiB [ 1.598136] [drm] MMIO at 0xfe000000 size is 64 kiB [ 1.598138] [drm] global init. [ 1.601643] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 512610 kiB [ 1.601646] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator [ 1.601649] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator [ 1.601657] [drm] No GMR memory available. Graphics memory resources are very limited. [ 1.601718] [drm:vmw_driver_load] *ERROR* Hardware has no pitchlock [ 1.601971] [TTM] Finalizing pool allocator [ 1.601975] [TTM] Finalizing DMA pool allocator [ 1.602006] [TTM] Zone kernel: Used memory at exit: 0 kiB [ 1.602724] vmwgfx: probe of 0000:00:02.0 failed with error -38
Can someone reopen this bug since the issue still reproduces.
Hi! The vmwgfx kernel module does not support devices without the pitchlock capability. Sorry. In that case you need to use the xf86-video-vmware driver standalone without kernel modesetting.