vmwgfx + libkms on VMware hardware 8

Aani kitita aanikitita at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 09:29:57 PDT 2011


Hi,

I 'm trying to test KMS functionality of latest vmwgfx module.
I tried the code from
 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.dri.devel/42908

as a simple test case, but all I get is a black screen instead
of white as would be expected.

Setup:
VMWare Workstation 8.0.0
Host & Guest distro: kubuntu oneiric (11.10)
libdrm: 2.4.26+git20111003.c82ef03e from xorg-edgers ppa
vmwgfx module: latest git version from freedesktop.org

dmesg output (vmwgfx initialization / capabilities)
[    3.696893] vmwgfx 0000:00:0f.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ
16
[    3.697188] [vmwgfx] Capabilities:
[    3.697191] [vmwgfx]   Rect copy.
[    3.697193] [vmwgfx]   Cursor.
[    3.697196] [vmwgfx]   Cursor bypass.
[    3.697198] [vmwgfx]   Cursor bypass 2.
[    3.697200] [vmwgfx]   8bit emulation.
[    3.697202] [vmwgfx]   Alpha cursor.
[    3.697204] [vmwgfx]   3D.
[    3.697206] [vmwgfx]   Extended Fifo.
[    3.697208] [vmwgfx]   Multimon.
[    3.697210] [vmwgfx]   Pitchlock.
[    3.697212] [vmwgfx]   Irq mask.
[    3.697214] [vmwgfx]   Display Topology.
[    3.697216] [vmwgfx]   GMR.
[    3.697218] [vmwgfx]   Traces.
[    3.697220] [vmwgfx]   GMR2.
[    3.697222] [vmwgfx]   Screen Object 2.
[    3.697224] [vmwgfx] Max GMR ids is 64
[    3.697226] [vmwgfx] Max GMR descriptors is 4096
[    3.697229] [vmwgfx] Max number of GMR pages is 196608
[    3.697231] [vmwgfx] Max dedicated hypervisor surface memory is 786432
kiB
[    3.697234] [vmwgfx] VRAM at 0xd0000000 size is 131072 kiB
[    3.697236] [vmwgfx] MMIO at 0xc8800000 size is 2048 kiB
[    3.697239] [vmwgfx] global init.
[    3.700262] [vmwgfx] width 640
[    3.700276] [vmwgfx] height 480
[    3.700289] [vmwgfx] bpp 32
[    3.704308] [vmwgfx] Fifo max 0x00200000 min 0x00001000 cap 0x0000077f
[    3.728297] [vmwgfx] Screen objects system initialized
[    3.728303] [vmwgfx] Detected device 3D availability.
[    3.728401] [vmwgfx] Initialized vmwgfx 2.1.0 20110927 for 0000:00:0f.0
on minor 0

I 'm trying with ./modeset -s 4 at 6:1024x768

Running the above under strace shows that all underlying ioctls succeed, so
it looks like
this code should work.

It looks like the update command is not sent to the card because if I add
the parameter
svga.forceTraces = "TRUE" to the .vmx file of the VM, I see a white
rectangle as expected
(the mode still doesn't look right though, it looks like the size of the
rectangle is 640x480
instead of 1024x768)

I also get in the vmware.log when I run the above:
2011-10-18T19:21:30.849+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: MKS enabling SVGA
2011-10-18T19:21:30.909+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: Guest display topology changed:
numDisplays 0
2011-10-18T19:21:30.910+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: Guest display topology changed:
numDisplays 0
2011-10-18T19:21:30.934+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: Guest display topology changed:
numDisplays 0
2011-10-18T19:21:30.935+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: Guest display topology changed:
numDisplays 0
2011-10-18T19:21:30.957+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: Guest display topology changed:
numDisplays 0
2011-10-18T19:21:30.974+02:00| mks| W110: MKS-EmuSVGA: Unsupported GMR image
format 0x00002020
2011-10-18T19:21:38.837+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: Guest display topology changed:
numDisplays 0
2011-10-18T19:21:38.940+02:00| mks| I120: MKS disabling SVGA

Any ideas on what may be going wrong? VMWare would make a pretty cool
platform
to experiment with several features of the modern open graphics stack like
wayland,
plymouth, flickerless boot, integrated kernel debugger, multiseat etc etc.

I 'll be happy to provide more debugging information on this problem as
needed.

Thanks in advance,
Aani
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