From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYQxP-00008n-Gv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:50:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DFF4E03CC; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:50:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from saturn.adsl24.co.uk (saturn.adsl24.co.uk [84.234.17.186]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E549CE03CC for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:50:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [78.32.188.94] (helo=peggy.localnet) by saturn.adsl24.co.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MYQxG-00039Q-QB for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:49:54 +0100 From: Al Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:18 +0000 References: User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - saturn.adsl24.co.uk X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - ngale.adsl24.co.uk Message-Id: <20090804205001.E549CE03CC@pigeon.gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4efba026-53fd-4f0b-969e-6c1cfa8fe1a4 X-Archives-Hash: 4b30a16dc2a35f7c1175a8627e9ff65c Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I > also followed the ATI Migration guide at > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. > > Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are > unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox displays were OK. Basically > it looks like when one has a bad modeline for X. If I click on the > guest window to close, I get a Virtualbox pop up asking if I want to > shutdown or power off the guest. When this pops up, the screen is a > slightly readable black and white version. Guest machines are Windows 7 > and Windows XP. Both have the same symptoms. > > I've rebuilt virtualbox-bin and -modules. I've Googled but can't seem > to find the right google-fu to turn anything up. > > Any suggestions on how to get things working again? > > Thanks, > > Drew > Hi I have the same problem however I have been able to start a machine from the comand line, ~ VirtualBox -rmode sdl -startvm < name of your machine> I also tried VirtualBox -rmode image -startvm < name of your machine> but this gave the same unreadable screen. The same results repeated with a new machine also. Installing the guest additions has no effect. Have not got around to investigating any further yet. Al