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  1. Quantal (12.10)
  2. Bug #1039157
  3. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 1039157

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Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) wrote : Re: vmwgfx kernel module not loaded by default

Barry - its not clear if the attached kern.log in comment #11 is after you've added vmwgfx to /etc/modules. At any rate, that module is getting loaded about 20 seconds into the boot:

[ 20.863814] [drm] Initialized vmwgfx 2.4.0 20120209 for 0000:00:0f.0 on minor 0

The vmwgfx module is a PCI device driver and should get auto-loaded by udev when it sees the PCI device ID 0x15ad:0x0405 which I can see from your lspci.txt:

00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VMware SVGA II Adapter [15ad:0405] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Have you made any external updates to VMware or OS/X ?

Also please try 'grep -i vmwgfx /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules*'