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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