Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg wiki and graphics drivers

[Urs Schütz]

On 02/14/17 07:30, Raffaele Belardi wrote:

Harry Putnam wrote:

Willie Mattthews  writes:

Not sure I'm following you here.  THe guest addtions come with the
Vbox and I've already installed them.

This is a windows 10 host and the vbox is the one installable on
windows. This is version 5.1.14

Guest additinos have nothing to do with gentoo kernel config.

What I'm asking about it setting up a kernel for gentoo os preparatory
to installing X.  As described in the Xorg gentoo wiki. Vbox vm's need
drivers like any other os.

I'm asking which driver works with the vbox graphics adapter.


x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox
I do not know what you need for the  hi-res frame buffer using kernel KMS.

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Urs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg wiki and graphics drivers

[Raffaele Belardi]

Harry Putnam wrote:

Willie Mattthews  writes:

Not sure I'm following you here.  THe guest addtions come with the
Vbox and I've already installed them.

This is a windows 10 host and the vbox is the one installable on
windows. This is version 5.1.14

Guest additinos have nothing to do with gentoo kernel config.

What I'm asking about it setting up a kernel for gentoo os preparatory
to installing X.  As described in the Xorg gentoo wiki. Vbox vm's need
drivers like any other os.

I'm asking which driver works with the vbox graphics adapter.
And how to get a hi-res frame buffer using kernel KMS.



I've never done that (building kernel for a VM) so can't offer a solution but in my 
Lubuntu VM the list of modules does not seem to include a specific driver for the Windows 
Host graphic card (NVidia NVS3100); there is instead a vboxvideo module and a generic 
drm_kms_helper.


$ lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
isofs  40960  1
arc4   16384  0
md416384  0
nls_utf8   16384  3
cifs  638976  4
fscache61440  1 cifs
vboxsf 45056  1
snd_intel8x0   40960  1
crct10dif_pclmul   16384  0
snd_ac97_codec131072  1 snd_intel8x0
crc32_pclmul   16384  0
ac97_bus   16384  1 snd_ac97_codec
ghash_clmulni_intel16384  0
snd_pcm   106496  2 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0
aesni_intel   167936  0
ppdev  20480  0
aes_x86_64 20480  1 aesni_intel
lrw16384  1 aesni_intel
snd_seq_midi   16384  0
snd_seq_midi_event 16384  1 snd_seq_midi
gf128mul   16384  1 lrw
snd_rawmidi32768  1 snd_seq_midi
glue_helper16384  1 aesni_intel
snd_seq69632  2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
ablk_helper16384  1 aesni_intel
input_leds 16384  0
snd_seq_device 16384  3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
serio_raw  16384  0
joydev 20480  0
cryptd 20480  3 ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel,ablk_helper
snd_timer  32768  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd81920  9 
snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

mac_hid16384  0
8250_fintek16384  0
i2c_piix4  24576  0
parport_pc 32768  0
soundcore  16384  1 snd
parport49152  2 ppdev,parport_pc
autofs440960  2
hid_generic16384  0
usbhid 49152  0
hid   118784  2 hid_generic,usbhid
vboxvideo  49152  2
psmouse   131072  0
ttm94208  1 vboxvideo
ahci   36864  2
drm_kms_helper155648  1 vboxvideo
libahci32768  1 ahci
syscopyarea16384  2 drm_kms_helper,vboxvideo
sysfillrect16384  2 drm_kms_helper,vboxvideo
sysimgblt  16384  2 drm_kms_helper,vboxvideo
fjes   28672  0
fb_sys_fops16384  1 drm_kms_helper
video  40960  0
drm   364544  5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,vboxvideo
e1000 135168  0
vboxguest 282624  6 vboxsf,vboxvideo
pata_acpi  16384  0

bye,

raffaele

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg wiki and graphics drivers

[Harry Putnam]

Willie Mattthews  writes:

> If I am not mistaken you would need to install,
>
> * app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions
>  Available versions:  4.3.38 ~4.3.40 ~5.0.16 ~5.0.30 5.0.32 ~5.1.12
> ~5.1.14 {X KERNEL="linux"}
>  Homepage:http://www.virtualbox.org/
>  Description: VirtualBox kernel modules and user-space tools
> for Gentoo guests
>
> I think you would have to install it in the VM itself. I don't know
> about the rest of it.

Not sure I'm following you here.  THe guest addtions come with the
Vbox and I've already installed them.

This is a windows 10 host and the vbox is the one installable on
windows. This is version 5.1.14

Guest additinos have nothing to do with gentoo kernel config.

What I'm asking about it setting up a kernel for gentoo os preparatory
to installing X.  As described in the Xorg gentoo wiki. Vbox vm's need
drivers like any other os.

I'm asking which driver works with the vbox graphics adapter.
And how to get a hi-res frame buffer using kernel KMS.