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I have a VMware virtual machine of a Linux system with two partitions. One is BackTrack 5 on Ubuntu 10.4, and the other is Ubuntu 13.04. When I try to get to the BackTrack desktop by entering "startx", I receive a fatal error, "Fatal server error:
no screens found." I attached the log. I did some research and understand that this is a problem with video drivers; however, I'm running the standard VMware SVGA II adapter. I'm not much of a Linux user, so I'll need some help with commands. Thanks.
Xorg.0.log
no screens found." I attached the log. I did some research and understand that this is a problem with video drivers; however, I'm running the standard VMware SVGA II adapter. I'm not much of a Linux user, so I'll need some help with commands. Thanks.
Xorg.0.log
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sjw601
The only thing I can think of is that you haven't installed the VMWare tools, or they aren't current, within your VM. Try installing/reinstalling them.
ASKER
Thanks, rindi. I installed Tools from the 13.04 partition. When I boot to the BackTrack login screen and check, VMware Tools asks whether I want to re-install tools, which makes me think that Tools are already installed. I'm running VMware Workstation 9. I guess that I can try to re-install tools, and I have a box with VMware 10, and I can try that, too. However, if I have to re-install Tools from the BackTrack side, I'll have to do it entirely from the command prompt, and I may need some help doing it that way.
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Thanks, rindi. I installed Tools from the command line on the BackTrack side. The error message no longer appears, but I get a black screen.
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This turned out to be the correct first step. I also had to edit the kernel to VGA=791 i915.modeset=1.