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Al wrote: |
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> Drew Tomlinson wrote: |
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>> I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I |
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>> also followed the ATI Migration guide at |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. |
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>> Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are |
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>> unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox displays were OK. Basically |
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>> it looks like when one has a bad modeline for X. If I click on the |
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>> guest window to close, I get a Virtualbox pop up asking if I want to |
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>> shutdown or power off the guest. When this pops up, the screen is a |
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>> slightly readable black and white version. Guest machines are Windows 7 |
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>> and Windows XP. Both have the same symptoms. |
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>> I've rebuilt virtualbox-bin and -modules. I've Googled but can't seem |
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>> to find the right google-fu to turn anything up. |
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>> Any suggestions on how to get things working again? |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Drew |
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> Hi I have the same problem however I have been able to start a machine from |
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> the comand line, |
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> ~ VirtualBox -rmode sdl -startvm < name of your machine> |
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> I also tried VirtualBox -rmode image -startvm < name of your machine> |
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> but this gave the same unreadable screen. |
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> The same results repeated with a new machine also. |
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> Installing the guest additions has no effect. |
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> Have not got around to investigating any further yet. |
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I tried moving my old xorg.conf out of the way and running X without any |
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conf. Then I started a Virtualbox machine and the display was fine. |
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Must have been something in the old xorg.conf that didn't jive with the |
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xorg 1.6. |
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Everything else worked too except my synaptics touchpad. I killed X and |
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ran X -configure and let it create a xorg.conf file for me. Then I cut |
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an pasted the synaptics part from my old file into this new and |
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restarted X. Everything now works. |
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Thanks for the help. |
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Cheers, |
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Drew |
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