On 08/14/2014 09:32 AM, walt wrote:
> Because I'm paranoid, I update my virtualbox ~amd64-gentoo-guest machine every
> day *before* I update my (real hardware) "production" machine. (The definition
> of "production" is left as an exercise for the reader.)
>
> Not long ago I noticed that the vbox guest machine failed to start a gnome
> session because "3D hardware support" is not available on the guest machine.
>
> To make a very long story short, I downgraded the xorg-server on the gentoo
> guest from 1.16.0 to 1.15.1, and now gnome3 is happy again.
>
> Techie detail for nerds only: /usr/libexec/gnome-session-check-accelerated
> returns an error message with xorg-server-1.16.0, but works normally with
> xorg-server-1.15.1.
>
> Has anyone else seen the same behavior?
>
> Thx
>
>
I saw similar problem running debian in virtualbox. Virtualbox guest
addition is needed for 3D support, but the additions won't compile with
the latest xorg-server.
