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FastTurtle Guru
Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 477 Location: Flakey Shake & Bake Caliornia, USA
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Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 3:37 pm Post subject: xserver 1.13 does xorg.conf need vbox video entry? |
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I've added the vboxvideo driver to the video-cards entry in make.conf. xorg.drivers have built it. now when I go to finish the configuration, there's no /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d or xorg.conf so following the xserver guide is no longer valid.
Do I really need it now or is that taken care of by the /etc/conf.d/modules entry?
EDIT:
Well fooey: Virtualbox wont start a vm since the video driver isn't loaded and doing a modprobe for it doesn't find it.
Turns out that as soon as I modprobed the blasted virtuaboxdrv (same name as xorg.drivers) I suffered a kernel crash (tainted module)
Anyone have suggestions about thish problem? |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54237 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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FastTurtle,
The vboxvideo driver s only for use in guest OS. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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FastTurtle Guru
Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 477 Location: Flakey Shake & Bake Caliornia, USA
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Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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so I still need it in VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa vbox" so that Virtualbox can load it? |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54237 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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FastTurtle,
On the host, you need VIDEO_CARDS= omitting vbox. The vbox video driver cannot be used on the host.
In the guest, you need VIDEO_CARDS="vbox" as thats the only driver that the guest can use. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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FastTurtle Guru
Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 477 Location: Flakey Shake & Bake Caliornia, USA
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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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so the video_cards="virtualbox" would only be needed if the system was on a VM?
This is confusing the hell out of me as vbox complains about no video driver (have everything installed - additions and such) so I don't know what's going on. Looks like I need to check all of the flags and see what may be giving me trouble. |
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Jaglover Watchman
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 8291 Location: Saint Amant, Acadiana
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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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FastTurtle wrote: | so the video_cards="virtualbox" would only be needed if the system was on a VM?
This is confusing the hell out of me as vbox complains about no video driver (have everything installed - additions and such) so I don't know what's going on. Looks like I need to check all of the flags and see what may be giving me trouble. |
There is a slight difference between video_cards="virtualbox" and VIDEO_CARDS="vbox". _________________ My Gentoo installation notes.
Please learn how to denote units correctly! |
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FastTurtle Guru
Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 477 Location: Flakey Shake & Bake Caliornia, USA
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 2:11 am Post subject: |
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according to xorg-drivers, it's virtualbox (we're talking the module here) and yes, my VIDEO_CARDS="radeon virtualbox" as the driver is called by the x11-drivers cards.
In regards to the Video_Cards/video_cards - you are correct. They're entirely different to Linux. In this regards though, once you've indicated what You are discussing, going lower case is accepted.
In regards to the vbox question, that's actually the accepted shorthand for the application called Virtualbox that I was using to refer to the application, not the video driver, which is a sub-set of the package. |
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FastTurtle Guru
Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 477 Location: Flakey Shake & Bake Caliornia, USA
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 2:15 am Post subject: |
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I like your sig as I do tend to denote units correctly.
They are
1) one
2) two
3) three
4) omg to many - nuke em from orbit |
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