Hello, I would apreciate some help with this screen size problem. The guest OS is a fresh gentoo linux OS install that worked fine with vbox-1.5.6 using a fully updated XP host.
The problem started after upgrading to vbox-1.6. Here is the output of the guest additions install: >>>>> Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 1.6.0 Guest Additions for Linux installation .... ... VirtualBox 1.6.0 Guest Additions installation Which: no dkms in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin...) Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel module... Building the shared folder support kernel module... Installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions... Could not set up the X Window VBoxClient service. To start the VBoxClient service at log-in for a given user, add the command 98vboxadd-xclient to the file .xinitrc in their home directory. Successfully installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions. Your must restart.... <<<<<< I added the line vboxadd-client just before the line exec vmware (don't know why the "98" is appearing in front of vboxadd-xclient) in the .xinitrc file. After firing up startx, I only get a ~643x368 size screen (info from xwininfo). The /var/log/Xorg.0.log file has many informational lines complaining about vrefresh and hsync out of range, say .... (II) VBoxVideo(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) ... I am using the sync values: HorizSync 30-92 VertRefresh 50-85 in the xorg.conf file. Interesting enough this config file worked when using vbox-1.5.6-1_Win_x86 and the same gentoo guest OS. I was able to change the screen size up to 1600x1200 before upgrading to vbox-1.6. I have the following xorg.conf modes: Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x768" "800x600" "640x480" Also the output of lsmod currently is: Module Size Used by vboxvfs 30144 0 vboxadd 47584 5 vboxvfs The vbox mouse integration works fine. I am using windowmaker as a window manager in the gentoo guest OS. Therefore, I typically edit the xorg.conf file manually. The guest OS is almost all functional. Network is fine and share folders work. I am using the original linux kernel 2.6.24.1 and Xorg 1.3. However the seamless mode in the virtual box Machine menu is grayed out. This is probably a reflection of not finding dkms when building the vbox kernel module (??) Thanks in advance for any help. -- Valmor de Almeida _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
