Mint / Cinnamon running in software rendering mode (Again)
Posted: 8. Jun 2017, 08:01
Sorry to bring this again (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=79486). But I have no choice. I have the same problem. *cough* can't post urls? not even link to a thread here in the forums? *cough*mpack wrote:The above topic is already marked by the OP as solved. Locking it.
If you have a similar problem (it can't be the same problem otherwise the above would solve it for you too), then open a new topic and provide minimum info as mentioned above.
I just installed Linux Mint Mate 18.1 on VirtualBox-5.1.22-115126-Win (and Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.1.22-115126). After installing it, Cairo dock worked in OpenGl mode (not without some warnings) but after installing the Cinnamon desktop, it ran in software rendering mode.
Me too, I had all that jazz correctly setup.I have enabled 3D acceleration in VirtualBox and assigned 128MB of graphics memory.
So I followed the steps in the aforementioned thread, to no avail. Actually it made things worse since Cinnamon now only renders a black screen and Cairo Dock (on mate) does the same! (the whole cairo dock bar is a black thing on the screen)Solution
Uninstall Guest Additions that are packaged with the guest
Reboot, then install the Guest Additions provided with VirtualBox by clicking Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image...
Navigate to the mounted image in a terminal and run VBoxLinuxAdditions.run