> I'm still having the same two problems after pulling geoff's updates: > > in vmware ( fusion ) i get the "aux/vga: vgactlw: <linear 0x3e80000 > 0x0>: unknown vmware id 0740
Exactly which kernel are you booting under vmware? The latest kernels from sources have a fix for this (at least 9pcf does - I just checked). Have you copied the new kernel to the place it's being loaded from (probably /n/9fat on the virtual disk)?
