On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Crístian Viana <cristiandei...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi! > I'm running Gentoo inside VirtualBox (on a Windows host, if that matters) > and I can't make X.org work. when I try "X -configure" it says it can't load > the vboxvideo library. according to some Google searches, that library > really doesn't work with the newest X.org. if that's really true, is there > currently any combination of VirtualBox/X.org/Gentoo libraries to run X.org > inside VirtualBox? > I'm running ~x86, so now I have =x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.4, > =app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.1.0 (running at boot), > =x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-3.1.0 and > =x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-3.1.0. when I run "X -configure", the > error log shows: > List of video drivers: > vboxvideo > dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so: undefined symbol: > resVgaShared > (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so > (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (loader failed, 7) > any hep would be appreciated. > thanks! > > -- > Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1] >
maybe you can start the X without using the vboxvideo driver. that is what i did. actually i did not know we have a vboxvideo driver, so i just used the vesa, and it works very well. i can even enable the 3d acceleration and play with compiz fusion ;) -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
