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From: Doug Schaefer <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [android-porting] Re: VirtualBox Black Screen
To: Ashwin Bihari <[email protected]>


Could be, I don't see any Java apps starting up. I'll dig a bit more and see
what I can find.


On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Ashwin Bihari <[email protected]> wrote:

> A lack of page flipping is not the problem..but that's fairly early in
> the Android startup process, there should be a lot more messages after
> as well..if you don't get that, Zygote, the startup application, is
> having an issue getting the rest of the system up..
>
> -- Ashwin
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Doug Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm doing the generic-x86 build as per the instructions
> > in build/target/board/generic_x86/README.txt.
> > Here's my report filtering out debug messages. gralloc does report a
> warning
> > about page flipping not supported. Could that be it?
> > I/vold    (   47): Android Volume Daemon version 2.0
> > I/        (   49): ServiceManager: 0x90ccd08
> > W/AudioHardwareInterface(   49): Using stubbed audio hardware. No sound
> will
> > be produced.
> > I/CameraService(   49): CameraService started: pid=49
> > I/AudioFlinger(   49): AudioFlinger's thread 0x90cd320 ready to run
> > I/SamplingProfilerIntegration(   48): Profiler is disabled.
> > I/Zygote  (   48): Preloading classes...
> > I/Zygote  (   48): ...preloaded 1939 classes in 1244ms.
> > I/Zygote  (   48): Preloading resources...
> > I/Zygote  (   48): ...preloaded 48 resources in 108ms.
> > I/Zygote  (   48): ...preloaded 15 resources in 4ms.
> > I/dalvikvm(   48): Splitting out new zygote heap
> > I/dalvikvm(   48): System server process 58 has been created
> > I/Zygote  (   48): Accepting command socket connections
> > E/BatteryService(   58): acOnlinePath not found
> > E/BatteryService(   58): usbOnlinePath not found
> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryStatusPath not found
> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryHealthPath not found
> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryPresentPath not found
> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryCapacityPath not found
> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryVoltagePath not found
> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryTemperaturePath not found
> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryTechnologyPath not found
> > I/sysproc (   58): Entered system_init()
> > I/sysproc (   58): ServiceManager: 0x8d93838
> > I/SurfaceFlinger(   58): SurfaceFlinger is starting
> > I/SurfaceFlinger(   58): SurfaceFlinger's main thread ready to run.
> > Initializing graphics H/W...
> > W/gralloc (   58): page flipping not supported (yres_virtual=600,
> > requested=1200)
> > I/gralloc (   58): using (fd=22)
> > I/gralloc (   58): id           = VESA VGA
> > I/gralloc (   58): xres         = 800 px
> > I/gralloc (   58): yres         = 600 px
> > I/gralloc (   58): xres_virtual = 800 px
> > I/gralloc (   58): yres_virtual = 600 px
> > I/gralloc (   58): bpp          = 16
> > I/gralloc (   58): r            = 11:5
> > I/gralloc (   58): g            =  5:6
> > I/gralloc (   58): b            =  0:5
> > I/gralloc (   58): width        = 127 mm (160.000000 dpi)
> > I/gralloc (   58): height       = 95 mm (160.421051 dpi)
> > I/gralloc (   58): refresh rate = 83.43 Hz
> > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Ashwin Bihari <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> What does logcat report as happening?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> -- Ashwin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Doug Schaefer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Doug Schaefer <[email protected]>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hey gang, first time poster :).
> >> >> There hasn't been much talk about running Android in VirtualBox in
> this
> >> >> group lately. But I saw the kernel_config_VirtualBox and thought I'd
> >> >> give it
> >> >> a try. I'm using the new VirtualBox 3.2. After adding the AHCI SATA
> >> >> driver
> >> >> to the config and building my kernel (android-2.6.32 branch). I was
> >> >> able to
> >> >> successfully run the installer.vdi and install into my main virtual
> >> >> disk.
> >> >> However when starting that up, I see the regular Linux boot messages
> >> >> fly
> >> >> by and then it fires up with a black screen and all disk and network
> >> >> activity stops. I'm not sure how to get any information out of the VM
> >> >> at
> >> >> that point. I can poke around in the installer after it's finished. I
> >> >> did
> >> >> notice that there were no fb devices, but that may be a red herring
> >> >> since
> >> >> the GUI doesn't try to come up in that mode.
> >> >> Has anyone been able to get this work lately or am I on untrodden
> >> >> ground.
> >> >
> >> > On the good news front, I have been able to adb connect to it and
> dmesg
> >> > and
> >> > logcat doesn't seem to report any errors. gralloc properly reports a
> >> > VESA
> >> > 800x600 screen. Maybe the screen is supposed to be black?
> >> >
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