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Comment 25 for bug 1039157

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote : Re: [Bug 1039157] Re: vmwgfx kernel module not loaded by default
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On Sep 05, 2012, at 03:11 PM, Joseph Salisbury wrote:

>Was there a prior kernel version that did not have this issue?

Yes, but I can't remember exactly which version this broke on. It definitely
worked all through 12.04 and in 12.10 up until whatever upgrade I happened to
do on-or-about 2012-08-20 (when I filed the bug). I'm pretty diligent about
doing once or twice daily upgrades on this machine, so it couldn't have been
much past when the failure started to occur.

From the bug report, it looks like the failure started happening at about
3.5.0-11.11-generic.

>I see that the vmwgfx driver is configured to be a module in the kernel config file:
>config.common.ubuntu:CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX=m
>
>Can you also attach your /var/log/syslog file?

See attached. Note from my previous comment that this is after a reboot
disabling the /etc/modules entry.

>One additional request, can you test the latest mainline kernel[0]?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>[0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.6-rc4-quantal/

Yep, I'll give those a shot and report back.