Re: VirtualBOX additions (again)

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

FYI VirtualBox 6.0 allows changing the graphics adapter from the usual
VBoxVGA to VMSVGA (VMware) and VBoxSVGA (modesetting). The VMware
driver is recognised, but crashes on Xorg startup; the modesetting one
gives:
...
[   252.567] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[   252.567] (--) Using wscons driver on /dev/ttyE4 in pcvt
compatibility mode (version 3.32)
[   252.567] (--) using VT number 5
[   252.581] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[   252.581] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[   252.581] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[   252.581] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support
[   252.581] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[   252.581] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[   252.581] (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
[   252.581] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[   252.581] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[   252.581] (EE)
....

On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 23:17, Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 22:13:22 +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
>
> > As expected, vboxvideo driver stopped working on 8.99.30 with the
> > major Xorg updates:
> > ...
> > [   741.057] (II) Loading /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so
> > [   741.057] (II) Module vboxvideo: vendor="Oracle Corporation"
> > [   741.057]    compiled for 1.18.0, module version = 1.0.1
> > [   741.057]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> > [   741.057]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
> > [   741.058] (EE) vboxvideo: module ABI major version (20) doesn't
> > match the server's version (24)
> > [   741.058] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module
> > requirement mismatch, 0)
> > ...
>
> Sorry, I have zero clue about X module ABI.
>
> -uwe



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