Hello Jack, I'm afraid that the only answer I can give you is: known answer, work in progress, but don't hold your breath due to lack of developer time and lack of interest on the part of anyone not payed by Oracle.
Regards, Michael On 01.04.2016 00:43, Jack Ostroff wrote: > I have seen many related posts and tickets about problems if 3D accel is on, > especially (or only?) with (64bit?) Linux guests. However, most either > don't provide a solution, or it hasn't worked for me. > > I currently have a Gentoo Linux host, kernel 4.1.15. Virtualbox 5.0.16, with > the guest additions from the download page 5.0.17-106140. The host is > KUbuntu 15.10 with kernel 4.2.0 and xorg 1.17.2. I have had various of the > guest systems virtual box packages installed. None are currently installed, > but it does not seem to have made any difference. I see no errors in the > virtualbox additions install logs on the guest. > > When I start the guest, the login screen looks fine, and when I log in, the > guest initially looks fine, with two applications visible and with icons on > the lower panel. However, once I try to do anything, the app windows just > disappear, as does the panel. If I hover the mouse over the panel, I can > generally click, but only the task launcher seems to work, and even there, > once I launch an application, it disappears. Alt-tab does show the icons, > and I can circle through them, but no matter where I stop, I never get any > application window visible. > > The only way I have gotten any information is to ssh in from a terminal on > the host. The most relevant line I see from the X log is "(EE) Failed to > load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)" > > If I turn off 3D accel, everything seems to work fine. > > My host video is "NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 1700 (G84GL)" using nvidia-drivers > 340.96. > > What other info should I post, or what else can I do to troubleshoot? > > Jack > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Transform Data into Opportunity. > Accelerate data analysis in your applications with > Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. > Click to learn more. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: > mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe > -- Michael Thayer | VirtualBox engineer ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | D-71384 Weinstadt ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Nederland, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Jan Schultheiss, Val Maher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
