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From: Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:02:58
Message-Id: 53e35fd51001172101v56e861a5hf3802724a231b8e7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox by "Crístian Viana"
1 On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Crístian Viana
2 <cristiandeives@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > hi!
4 > I'm running Gentoo inside VirtualBox (on a Windows host, if that matters)
5 > and I can't make X.org work. when I try "X -configure" it says it can't load
6 > the vboxvideo library. according to some Google searches, that library
7 > really doesn't work with the newest X.org. if that's really true, is there
8 > currently any combination of VirtualBox/X.org/Gentoo libraries to run X.org
9 > inside VirtualBox?
10 > I'm running ~x86, so now I have =x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.4,
11 > =app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.1.0 (running at boot),
12 > =x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-3.1.0 and
13 > =x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-3.1.0. when I run "X -configure", the
14 > error log shows:
15 > List of video drivers:
16 >         vboxvideo
17 > dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so: undefined symbol:
18 > resVgaShared
19 > (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so
20 > (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (loader failed, 7)
21 > any hep would be appreciated.
22 > thanks!
23 >
24 > --
25 > Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]
26 >
27
28
29 maybe you can start the X without using the vboxvideo driver. that is
30 what i did. actually i did not know we have a vboxvideo driver, so i
31 just used the vesa, and it works very well. i can even enable the 3d
32 acceleration and play with compiz fusion ;)
33
34
35 --
36 Best Regards,
37 David Shen
38
39 http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
40 http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/

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Re: [gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox "Crístian Viana" <cristiandeives@×××××.com>