Hello Valmor, This issue is probably due to VBoxClient not starting up properly for some reason. Can you try starting it manually from within your X session? It is almost certainly not related to dkms.
Regards, Michael de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > Hello, > > I would apreciate some help with this screen size problem. The guest OS > is a fresh gentoo linux OS install that worked fine with vbox-1.5.6 > using a fully updated XP host. > > The problem started after upgrading to vbox-1.6. Here is the output of > the guest additions install: > > Verifying archive integrity... All good. > Uncompressing VirtualBox 1.6.0 Guest Additions for Linux installation > .... > ... > VirtualBox 1.6.0 Guest Additions installation > Which: no dkms in > (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin...) > Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel module... > Building the shared folder support kernel module... > Installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions... > > Could not set up the X Window VBoxClient service. > To start the VBoxClient service at log-in for a given user, add the > command 98vboxadd-xclient to the file .xinitrc in their home directory. > Successfully installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions. > Your must restart.... > <<<<<< > > I added the line > vboxadd-client > > just before the line > exec vmware > > (don't know why the "98" is appearing in front of vboxadd-xclient) > > in the .xinitrc file. After firing up startx, I only get a ~643x368 size > screen (info from xwininfo). The /var/log/Xorg.0.log file has many > informational lines complaining about vrefresh and hsync out of range, > say > .... > (II) VBoxVideo(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of > range) > ... > > I am using the sync values: > > HorizSync 30-92 > VertRefresh 50-85 > > in the xorg.conf file. > > Interesting enough this config file worked when using > vbox-1.5.6-1_Win_x86 and the same gentoo guest OS. I was able to change > the screen size up to 1600x1200 before upgrading to vbox-1.6. I have the > following xorg.conf modes: > > Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x768" "800x600" "640x480" > > Also the output of lsmod currently is: > > Module Size Used by > vboxvfs 30144 0 > vboxadd 47584 5 vboxvfs > > The vbox mouse integration works fine. I am using windowmaker as a > window manager in the gentoo guest OS. Therefore, I typically edit the > xorg.conf file manually. > > The guest OS is almost all functional. Network is fine and share folders > work. > I am using the original linux kernel 2.6.24.1 and Xorg 1.3. > However the seamless mode in the virtual box Machine menu is grayed out. > This is probably a reflection of not finding dkms when building the vbox > kernel module (??) > > Thanks in advance for any help. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
