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VMWare Server 2.0 Console not working

pete — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:36:01 +0000

I’ve had a few issues recently� opening a VMWare Server 2.0 web based console with Firefox 3.07 running on OpenSUSE 11.1.� The console session just didn’t appear, which is a problem when you can’t SSH into the target VM due to lack of networking.� The answer is obscure but works well:

VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=TRUE firefox &

With this, the console works correctly as expected.� Lovely.

Speeding up a slow NVidia 8400 card in opensuse linux

pete — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:19:15 +0000

I was having dreadful problems on my HP Laptop with KDE4 or Compiz – jaggies, slow performance, difficulty switching tabs in Firefox, the whole experience was poor.� After a spot of Google trawling, I added these to the /etc/modprobe.conf.local on my installation of 11.0 (and 11.1)

#
# please add local extensions to this file
#

options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords=”PerfLevelSrc=0×2222″
options nvidia NVreg_Mobile=1

This was with a Geforce 8400M GS which shows up in lspci as:

05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS (rev a1)

The difference was pretty dramatic.� KDE 4.1is usable with KWin display effects turned on, tab switching is smooth and generally it’s pretty usable again.� All using the NVidia 177.82 driver.

Cheers Eugene.

pete — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:57:56 +0000

We’ll miss you. You were always always in good mood – just how did you do that?

Eugene with a young Luke, beside Jude with a young Esme.

One of nature’s gentlemen.