Android-x86 4.4-r3 with VMware: no graphics

[brunofax]

Previous version of Android-x86 worked well on vmware virtual machines (except apps needing OpenGL ES).

Now with 4.4-r3 the GUI does not start, I just get a command line prompt. I found the following in the log, don't know if it is relevant:

08-01 19:35:20.705 I/SurfaceFlinger( 4994): SurfaceFlinger's main thread ready to run. Initializing graphics H/W...
08-01 19:35:20.705 D/libEGL ( 4994): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLES_mesa.so
08-01 19:35:20.706 W/GRALLOC-PIPE( 4994): failed to create pipe screen for vmwgfx
08-01 19:35:20.706 E/GRALLOC-DRM( 4994): unsupported driver: vmwgfx
08-01 19:35:20.706 W/EGL-GALLIUM( 4994): failed to create DRM screen
08-01 19:35:20.706 W/EGL-GALLIUM( 4994): will fall back to other EGL drivers if any
08-01 19:35:20.706 W/GRALLOC-PIPE( 4994): failed to create pipe screen for vmwgfx
08-01 19:35:20.706 E/GRALLOC-DRM( 4994): unsupported driver: vmwgfx
08-01 19:35:20.706 W/EGL-DRI2( 4994): fail to get drm fd
08-01 19:35:20.706 I/EGL-GALLIUM( 4994): using SW screen
08-01 19:35:20.706 W/GRALLOC-PIPE( 4994): failed to create pipe screen for vmwgfx
08-01 19:35:20.706 E/GRALLOC-DRM( 4994): unsupported driver: vmwgfx
08-01 19:35:20.706 W/GRALLOC-PIPE( 4994): failed to create pipe screen for vmwgfx
08-01 19:35:20.706 E/GRALLOC-DRM( 4994): unsupported driver: vmwgfx
08-01 19:35:20.706 E/hwcomposer( 4994): framebuffer_open failed (Invalid argument)
08-01 19:35:20.706 W/hwcomposer( 4994): getting VSYNC period from thin air: 16666666
08-01 19:35:20.706 D/hwcomposer( 4994): Intel hwcomposer module
08-01 19:35:20.706 E/SurfaceFlinger( 4994): ERROR: failed to open framebuffer (Invalid argument), aborting
08-01 19:35:20.706 F/libc ( 4994): Fatal signal 6 (SIGABRT) at 0x00001382 (code=-6), thread 4994 (surfaceflinger)


Is there anything I could try?

[pstglia]

Try enabling 3d acceleration on settings. vmwgfx driver requires it

[brunofax]

Thanks, this solved the problem: now the GUI starts.  And some applications needing OpenGL ES now work!!!

However I still have a problem:  the mouse pointer is not correctly positioned on the screen and when trying to approach the borders it jumps back in the middle... It's impossible to use the mouse.

I tried a couple of different screen resolution, with vga=nnn on the kernel grub line, but all seem to have this pointer problem.

[pstglia]

Mouse pointer is a known issue. Last time I tested using vmware player, there was not even a drawn cursor.

Suppose it is be related to something on drm gralloc... Have to investigate it

[John Smyth]

I've got a similar issue with 4.4-r3 + Vmware (3d acceleration enabled).
GUI does start, but it's really buggy. Most of what I see is a black screen.
I can see system buttons (most of the time), overlay effects (homescreen overscroll), search widgets and app menu. But if there's a popup window screen becomes black, no wallpapers, no cursor.
The interesting thing, that then i set, for example, a live wallpaper and quit selection menu, I can see it for a moment.
When I turned on cursor coordinates in a developers settings i couldn't see anything but top line with those coordinates.
So it might have something to do with alpha channel.

And also, the system completely ignores screen resolution and runs 800x600 only.

[brunofax]

I see the same problems with the GUI.   But screen resolution seems to work, I haven't tried many cases, but at least 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 worked, both in 16 and 32 bit (for example vga=0x344 gives 1280x1024x32).