[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 356133] Re: [jaunty] vesa driver stopped working (no devices found) inside KVM after X update

2009-05-08 Thread Michael Robinson
None of the three previous links have panned out. I have discovered a workaround, however: KVM-85 will, in fact, work if you specify the PCI device in xorg.conf as follows: Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Driver "vesa" BusID "

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 356133] Re: [jaunty] vesa driver stopped working (no devices found) inside KVM after X update

2009-05-08 Thread Michael Robinson
Also, for what it's worth, the vesa video performance under kvm-85 / Jaunty guest is rather worse than it was under Jaunty kvm / Intrepid guest. It helps somewhat to copy vgabios.bin from /usr/share/kvm to your kvm-85 installation (the kvm-85 version of the vgabios is from December, vs. April for