[Fixed] Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

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Re: Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

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At the very bottom of the page, Guest Additions r119522 (as of this writing).
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Re: Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

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Got it and it seems to work (i.e. no more black screen) but it still seems like the 3D acceleration is not really working. Do I need to modify something on Ubuntu side (like changing the compositor and whatnot)?
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Re: Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

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3D is not expected to work with non-X11 applications like GNOME Shell as a Wayland compositor. It should still work, as well as it ever has, for X11 applications running under xwayland.

This is an area where user contributions are welcome. It would most likely mean implementing Nvidia's EGLStreams API.
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Re: Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

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Thanks.
Had the same problem and the latest developtment build (119522) solved it for me too.
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Re: Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

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michael wrote:3D is not expected to work with non-X11 applications like GNOME Shell as a Wayland compositor. It should still work, as well as it ever has, for X11 applications running under xwayland.
Any way to work that around? Currently I don't find the system really usable due to the UI being laggish. Maybe I should disable Wayland?
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Re: Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

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Disabling Wayland should help. Finding people interested in contributing code should help more. There seem to be enough people interested in seeing it done, perhaps one or two would also have the technical know-how.
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Re: Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

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michael wrote:Disabling Wayland should help.
Ok, I will try that.
michael wrote:Finding people interested in contributing code should help more. There seem to be enough people interested in seeing it done, perhaps one or two would also have the technical know-how.
Sure, I certainly hope so.
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Re: Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

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This issue has been fixed with the release of VirtualBox 5.2.4. Marking as [Fixed].
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Re: [Fixed] Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

Post by Scott@SyracuseU »

I'm still having this issue in VirtualBox 5.2.6. With 3D acceleration enabled, I get a black screen when booting Ubuntu 17.10. With 3D acceleration disabled, Ubuntu 17.10 gets to the desktop without issues.
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Re: [Fixed] Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

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Please try the updated Additions test build on the Downloads[1] page, in the "imporrtant:" paragraph.

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
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Re: [Fixed] Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

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michael wrote:Please try the updated Additions test build on the Downloads[1] page, in the "imporrtant:" paragraph.
This worked. Thanks!
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Re: [Fixed] Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

Post by Achilles_Rush »

Note: This also fixes the Monitor Count of 2.

I couldn't get past the blank screen without disabling the 3D Acceleration, but even then could never get 2 monitors to activate.
The newest Guest Additions fixes both the blank screen, 3D Acceleration, and multiple monitors.

Thank you, I almost had to switch to VMWare :|
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Re: [Fixed] Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

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michael wrote:Please try the updated Additions test build on the Downloads[1] page, in the "imporrtant:" paragraph.
This finally worked for me too (Ubuntu 17.10 / GNOME Wayland, NVidia GTX660, 3D Acceleration enabled). Great job! Thank you. :D
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Re: [Fixed] Vbox 5.2 Black Screen on Startup Ubuntu 17.10 (#17190)

Post by cy@$JOB »

I had a similar issue with CentOS 7.4. The top 20% of the screen was black. Disabling 3D acceleration circumvented the problem.

My CentOS 6.9 and Fedora 27 VMs had no such issue.
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