Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I > also followed the ATI Migration guide at > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. > > Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are > unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox displays were OK. Basically > it looks like when one has a bad modeline for X. If I click on the > guest window to close, I get a Virtualbox pop up asking if I want to > shutdown or power off the guest. When this pops up, the screen is a > slightly readable black and white version. Guest machines are Windows 7 > and Windows XP. Both have the same symptoms. > > I've rebuilt virtualbox-bin and -modules. I've Googled but can't seem > to find the right google-fu to turn anything up. > > Any suggestions on how to get things working again? > > Thanks, > > Drew > Hi I have the same problem however I have been able to start a machine from the comand line,
~ VirtualBox -rmode sdl -startvm < name of your machine> I also tried VirtualBox -rmode image -startvm < name of your machine> but this gave the same unreadable screen. The same results repeated with a new machine also. Installing the guest additions has no effect. Have not got around to investigating any further yet. Al
