Any known problems with vmplayer and git driver?

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Thu Jan 20 23:44:25 PST 2011


On Don, 2011-01-20 at 12:55 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: 
> Hi,
>    I switched to the git version of xf86-video-ati this morning and I
> immediately noticed some improvements with things like KDE menus and
> such. However almost immediately I started having problems with
> VMWare's vmplayer app. Appliances that I have run for months now won't
> run at all. Lock files are left in the appliance directories and the
> player won't play them.
> 
>    There have been a few other changes to this machine over the last
> few days so I want to be careful about debugging what the root cause
> is but they were certainly working this morning before I tried the new
> driver.
> 
>    At this point I'm unable to run my most important appliances.
> 
>    I have not yet downgraded back to the normal release. I'll be doing
> that soon.
> 
>    Thanks in advance for any info.

I'm afraid it's you who needs to provide us with more information about
the problem... I assume the lock files are just leftovers from the
original problem.


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