[SOLVED] VBOX 4.2.4, 3D not working in Linux Mint 14 guest

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srv1973
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[SOLVED] VBOX 4.2.4, 3D not working in Linux Mint 14 guest

Post by srv1973 »

Hi all,

I'm having trouble getting 3D acceleration working inside a Linux Mint 14 (23bit) guest. I've ticked '3D' in the VM settings, assigned 128MB of Video RAM. The Guest Additions that are installed are those from the Mint (Ubuntu?) repositories (version 4.1.18, but I've tried as well to uninstall those and use the once as shipping with 4.2.4).

Looking in /var/log/Xorg.log.0 I see:

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[    19.351] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
...
[    19.353] (II) Loading sub module "dri"
[    19.353] (II) LoadModule: "dri"
[    19.353] (II) Module "dri" already built-in
[    19.519] (EE) VBoxVideo(0): DRIScreenInit failed, disabling DRI.
[    19.531] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable
[    19.532] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
[    19.556] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
I've searched through my VBox log file, and can't find anything in there indicating whether or not VBox was successful in enabling 3D acceleration from the host side.

Can anybody recommend any further steps to investigate (or better fix) this?

Rgds, Maarten
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srv1973
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Re: VBOX 4.2.4, 3D not working in Linux Mint 14 guest

Post by srv1973 »

Follow-up,

Same host, same VBox version but with a Linux Mint 13 guest (32bit), 3D acceleration is working:

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[    19.750] (II) LoadModule: "dri"
[    19.750] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
[    19.751] (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    19.751]    compiled for 1.11.3, module version = 1.0.0
[    19.751]    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0
[    19.751] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
[    19.751] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[    19.751] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so
[    19.751] (II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    19.751]    compiled for 1.11.3, module version = 1.2.0
[    19.751]    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0
[    19.751] (II) Loading extension DRI2
and:

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$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Card: InnoTek Systemberatung VirtualBox Graphics Adapter 
           X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: ati,vboxvideo (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x983@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Chromium GLX Version: 2.1 Chromium 1.9
This is with the 4.2.4 guest additions btw.

So, anything Mint 14 specific? possibly with the Xorg version?

Maarten
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Re: VBOX 4.2.4, 3D not working in Linux Mint 14 guest

Post by Perryg »

srv1973
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Re: VBOX 4.2.4, 3D not working in Linux Mint 14 guest

Post by srv1973 »

Fabulous PerryG, thanks so much for linking to that ticket. I've installed the 4.2.5 test release and upgraded my guest additions, and things are running great:

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$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Card: InnoTek Systemberatung VirtualBox Graphics Adapter 
           X.Org: 1.13.0 drivers: ati,vboxvideo (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x983@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Chromium GLX Version: 2.1 Chromium 1.9
Apart from the 3D accelerations, this release feels faster in general as well (it felt faster as well before I upgraded the guest additions when everything was still using llvmpipe, so I'm not just referring to the expected speed-up with 3D acceleration).
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Re: [SOLVED] VBOX 4.2.4, 3D not working in Linux Mint 14 gue

Post by Phillyidol »

Just curious - how do you DL the testcase versions?

I clicked on the links in the ticket, but just get "404 page not found" errors
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Re: [SOLVED] VBOX 4.2.4, 3D not working in Linux Mint 14 gue

Post by Perryg »

I think since they are not responding to the ticket for new links the next maintenance release with the fix should be forth coming.
Phillyidol
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Re: [SOLVED] VBOX 4.2.4, 3D not working in Linux Mint 14 gue

Post by Phillyidol »

Figured as much, but thought I'd ask JIC the release was a long time in coming.

I'm happy to wait then.

Thanks
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Re: [SOLVED] VBOX 4.2.4, 3D not working in Linux Mint 14 gue

Post by Net-Smart »

Phillyidol wrote:Figured as much, but thought I'd ask JIC the release was a long time in coming.

I'm happy to wait then.

Thanks

Would this be the reason i can not install guest additions ?

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