[Bug 1208024] Re: Default rules fail to set PRIMARY_DEVICE_FOR_DISPLAY for vmwgfx driver

[Reagan Sanders]

As a workaround, dropping the following rules file into your local
/etc/udev/rules.d/ should correct the issue.

** Attachment added: "10-vmwgfx.rules"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/1208024/+attachment/3759321/+files/10-vmwgfx.rules

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Title:
  Default rules fail to set PRIMARY_DEVICE_FOR_DISPLAY for vmwgfx driver

Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 13.04
  175-0ubuntu26

  The default 78-graphics-card.rules does not set
  PRIMARY_DEVICE_FOR_DISPLAY=1 for devices using the vmwgfx driver (from
  the open-vm-tools package). Several other drm subsystem drivers are
  special-cased here (i915, radeon, nouveau). This causes a misleading
  failure message in the boot log, such as:

  * Starting load fallback graphics devices
  [ FAIL ]

  caused by /etc/init/udev-fallback-graphics.conf erroneously trying to
  modprobe vesafb because it thinks that no graphics driver has been
  successfully loaded. The VM does still function properly, this bug
  just causes a spurious error message.

  Adding a rule for vmwgfx similar to what already exists for other
  drivers fixes the issue.

  Example of others experiencing this issue:
  http://askubuntu.com/questions/142213/ubuntu-12-04-server-failed-to-load-fallback-graphics-devices

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