Slackware 12 and Virtual PC 2007


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I'm trying to setup Slackware 12 under VPC2007 and am running into the usual graphical glitches. The odd thing is, when I Ctrl+Alt+F2 to try to get to a text terminal, the glitches are still there and I can't see more than 3-4 lines.

Has anyone figured out a way around this in order to get Slack (or really any distro - a "universal" fix would be great) working nicely under VPC? Thanks a million.

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At this point I'm open to anything.

As for VirtualBox, is it just freeware or is it GPL? Not that it matters all that much, but I'm curious.

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There is a GPL Open source version, but then there is a version that isn't because they add some things they don't want to release the source to or something.

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Weird.

I'm trying the personal/evaluation version now.

As for the open-source version, does anyone know if it can be built without Visual Studio? I have Bloodshed Dev-C++ but no Visual C++. Am I SOL or is there still a way to build it?

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try vmware

Without any personal experience, I can say that I have heard of many "glitches" with MSVPC, and VMWare is pretty well-known for how well it works with Linux.

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In all fairness, I've had Linux problems with VPC even back in the Connectix days. I remember all kinds of headaches trying to get Red Hat 7 running on it.

Anyway, VirtualBox runs great, so thank you very much for the help. I'm actually going to give Shift a try since I've never used it before.

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I don't think Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 supports Linux. I know VMware does so give that a try. It is tricky to install because it took my instructor couple days to make it work.

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I remember posting on Neowin years ago when I was trying to get Fedora core 2 to work in MS Virtual PC. X server couldn't start. I guess they have interest in fixing this bug, in fact they probably put it in intentionally for some reason, I mean if they're properly emulating a VESA graphics adapter then X should work.

Anyway, VirtualBox and VMWare are great. I use VirtualBox with a Windows guest so I can test my web stuff on IE6 and 7. With Intel VT it runs at pretty much native speed (I didn't do any benchmarks, maybe it's the same speed without VT). I used the GPL version but I had trouble building the kernel module or getting it to work anyway. I switched to the personal use binary anyway because I wanted the guest extensions (seemless mouse integration etc).

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Installing Slackware 12.1 in a Virtual PC 2007 is easy

but there are a trouble to solve.

After running X11, with "startx" or with "init 4", You

could discover that the "text mode" does not continue to

work when you stop X11 or when you use "ALT CTRL F?" to

change display (The display become black).

I found it is because of the vga mode running the kernel :

"vga=773" in /etc/lilo.conf. If you change in "vga=0"

(do not forget to run "lilo" and reboot after change)

Instead to edit this file, the choose could be done during

the installation when configuring lilo !

Than you have a display trouble when the slackware run

at start "/etc/rc.d/rc.udev start".

To solve this trouble, You could "chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.udev"

But than the mouse do not work because the module is not

loaded and you must run "modprobe psmouse" before running

X11.

The trouble come from loading by udev of the module "s3fb".

A best way de solve the trouble is to avoid udev to load

this module. That can be done by adding in the file

"/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist" the line "blacklist s3fb".

Than X11 display and text display work !

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Wow, wasn't expecting a response to this thread, but thanks! I'll give that a try next time I'm testing.

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