Comment 17 for bug 1039157

So, with Prf_Jakob's help, I added vmwgfx to /etc/modules and rebooted. That gave me 3d, no tiny fonts on lightdm, and no llvmpipe based corruptions. So that's a great workaround, but why isn't vmwgfx being loaded automatically?

% grep -i 3d /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 8.737] (II) vmware(0): Gallium3D XA version: 1.0.0.
[ 8.737] (--) vmware(0): Direct rendering (3D) is enabled.

% grep -i open /tmp/glxinfo.txt
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE;
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:

% lsmod | grep vmwgfx
vmwgfx 121226 3
ttm 83595 1 vmwgfx
drm 275528 4 vmwgfx,ttm