VirtualBox

Ticket #1517 (new defect)

Opened 2 months ago

Last modified 1 week ago

"Xorg -configure" messes up the display

Reported by: maybeway36 Assigned to:
Priority: minor Component: other
Version: VirtualBox 1.6.0 Keywords:
Cc: Guest type: Linux
Host type: other

Description

The command "Xorg -configure", designed to probe hardware for Xorg, locks up the OS running inside VirtualBox and you have to reset the VM. Xorg -configure is used in Puppy Linux if you choose the Xorg option, as well as in PC-BSD. Neither works properly. Most other distributions work.

Change History

05/14/08 16:28:46 changed by michael

Actually, it doesn't lock up the OS, it just messes up the display. You can still enter commands at the keyboard (at least on the VM I used to test this).

05/27/08 18:23:33 changed by silvan

I have the same problem with openmamba Linux, since release 1.6.0. It causes the virtual machine to abort when started from livecd (it launches X -configure on boot), a workaround for this is disabling the bootsplash. If I launch X -configure from an installed system (runlevel 3) the effect is that hitting a key causes the virtual machine window to move (!).

05/28/08 11:12:06 changed by michael

  • summary changed from VirtualBox locks up at "Xorg -configure" to "Xorg -configure" messes up the display.

07/07/08 21:44:10 changed by frank

  • guest changed from other to Linux.

07/10/08 12:52:15 changed by medigeek

I confirm the problem with guest O/S puppy linux

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