Re: Typo in Xorg-7 Testing and Config + Note on VMware/vmwgfx

"lfs" ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:49:58 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel
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On Sunday, March 2nd, 2025 at 16:36, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, March 2nd, 2025 at 10:22, Richard Bowater <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Also, for VMware users: If running LFS in a VM with vmwgfx, the display will fail to
>> initialise properly unless 'Accelerate 3D graphics' is manually enabled in the VM's
>> Display settings. (On standard distros or when VMware Tools is installed, this is set
>> automatically, but for LFS, it must be done manually.)
<
> We really can't address all the different variations of this type of thing in the book.

Maybe Richard could be encouraged to knock up a Hint, 
along the lines of a

  "Notes for using LFS/BLFS within VMware"

so that the info isn't "lost" to the list archives?

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