Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[Hartmut Meyer <hartmut.meyer@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2003 19:56 schrieb Henry Harpending:

> Thanks to everyone for the help with vmware: it now runs just fine on my
> suse 9.0.
>
> The gotcha that got me was that I let vmware-config.pl overwrite the
> suse-supplied kernel modules, then when I uninstalled vmware they were
> gone. I reinstalled--force installed--the kernel RPM to get them back, then
> just said no to the offer to replace them.

Just searching for "VMWARE" in our support data base would have provided you 
with the answer as well:

  http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/10/vmware4_90_probleme.html

> I also, following advice from another thread, set pci=noacpi in grub.  What
> does this mean?  IOW what is acpi?

Point your browser at

  file:/usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/ACPI-HOWTO/index.html

(you need to have package howtoenh installed)


Greetings from Bremen
hartmut