Hello All, 29.09.2017 12:30, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hello Hans, Sergio, > >> I just tried Fedora kernel 4.13.1-303.fc27, which has the vboxvideo driver >> enabled, >> with gnome 3.24 from Fedora 26 with both X11 and Wayland and both work fine >> for me, >> not sure what is going on? Is this with gnome-3.26? I can give that a try if >> you want, >> but that would point to a gnome bug, not a bug in the vboxvideo. > > > yep gnome-shell 3.26, but I don't see why it should be a gnome-shell bug. > > The dkms driver works, as well as the virtualbox one. Just the linux driver > fails >> Is there anything special about the setup of the users seeing this ? Have >> you tried >> to reproduce this yourself? > > > Install ubuntu artful beta2 and download the old kernel from launchpad is > enough to trigger the issue. > the new kernel in artful has that staging driver disabled, so it can't see it > >> This is enabled in Fedora kernels or vanilla kernels , do you mean >> since 4.13.1 vbox guestaditionals drives are in main kernel ? > > > exactly enabling/disabling 3D acceleration seems to be not helping > > >> Gianfranco, since kernel 3.11 , vboxvideo_drv.so for xorg-X11 should be >> removed from the system and we start use just vboxvideo.ko (kernel > > I removed that file looong time ago, when Debian switched to rootless X server > (I grabbed also the xorg patch that is merged in vbox 5.2 I think) > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/tree/debian/patches/new-xorg-1.19.patch > > BTW apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms grabs the virtualbox guest driver, > and loading > that one works, this is why I'm actually blaming the mainline staging driver > :) Thanks for the heads-up. I am gradually adjusting our in-tree code to match vboxvideo in staging, so at some point, when things stop turning up to stop me, I will probably hit the crucial difference. Gianfranco, if you have time could you please give the Additions from the next beta release a try, when it is available, since I have already started the process? I would be very grateful if you could. I will too of course when I find a moment, moments are just in short supply.
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