[gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade

[gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade

[Drew Tomlinson]

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

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Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade

[Al]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade

[Fernando Antunes]

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Al <al@ngale.adsl24.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>

I had the same error when I upgrade my kernel version. Did you rebuild the
kernel in this ati migration process ?
If yes, run module-rebuild (sys-kernel/module-rebuild) as root.




> >
> > 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
>
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade -- SOLVED

[Drew Tomlinson]

Al wrote:
> 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.
>   

I tried moving my old xorg.conf out of the way and running X without any 
conf.  Then I started a Virtualbox machine and the display was fine.  
Must have been something in the old xorg.conf that didn't jive with the 
xorg 1.6.

Everything else worked too except my synaptics touchpad.  I killed X and 
ran X -configure and let it create a xorg.conf file for me.  Then I cut 
an pasted the synaptics part from my old file into this new and 
restarted X.  Everything now works.

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,

Drew


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