Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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Hi, I tested the very latest build of VB 5.2.7 r120866 with latest extpack and GA on macOS and still no luck with the video driver, it stay on fixed size and 1024*768 is pretty small :) Can I help in resolving this issue?
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Jean-François
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here is the usual log
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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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The "vboxadd-setup.log" and the "Xorg.0.log" might be useful, but I need to see the VBox.log.

Follow a "start the VM from cold-boot" / "observe error" / "shutdown the VM" cycle. With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log". Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response (see the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form).
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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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Thanks Socratis here is the requested log.
Jean-François
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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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JiF_Brodeur wrote:Hi, I tested the very latest build of VB 5.2.7 r120866 with latest extpack and GA
Not really. Your GAs have not been updated:
VirtualBox VM 5.2.97 r120712 darwin.amd64 (Feb  6 2018 17:50:14) release log
00:00:13.974152 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 5.1.26 r117224 '5.1.26'
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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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Hi Socratis, Thanks for your help, I might have forgotten to reboot after installing the GA, I am doing a new test with 5.2.8 and I got the same result. Video driver does not work!
Thanks
Jean-Frs
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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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This probably isn't the cause of your problem, but...
VBox.log wrote:
00:00:01.412490 Host RAM: 16384MB (16.0GB) total, 5806MB (5.6GB) available
00:00:01.568638 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000200000000 (8 589 934 592, 8 192 MB, 8.0 GB)
00:00:01.568977 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000008000000 (134 217 728, 128 MB)
You are committing more RAM to the guest than you have available on the host. You should reduce the RAM allocated to the guest to 4GB.
VBox.log wrote:
00:00:01.835120 CPUM: Logical host processors: 8 present, 8 max, 8 online, online mask: 00000000000000ff
00:00:01.835125 CPUM: Physical host cores: 4
00:00:01.648519 PcBios: [SMP] BIOS with 4 CPUs
The i7-2635QM has four physical cores which are hyper-threaded. VirtualBox uses physical cores and so you should reduce the number allocated to the guest to be 2.

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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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Hi AndyP73, I lowered memory and CPU count as per your recommendations but still no luck with the video driver, anything else I could try&
Thanks
Jean-François
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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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socratis wrote:Follow a "start the VM from cold-boot" / "observe error" / "shutdown the VM" cycle. With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log". Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response (see the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form).
You didn't do a cold start in the new VBox.log, something that doesn't show us the installed GAs version. Please try again...
00:00:35.708892 Changing the VM state from 'SUSPENDED' to 'RESUMING'
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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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Hi Socratis, I think I have it right this time lol but I check my GA
[oracle@localhost oracle]$ lsmod | grep -io vboxguest | xargs modinfo | grep -iw version
version: 5.2.8 r121009
but in any case here is the new log.
Thanks for your help
Jean-François
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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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Thanks Jean-François, the VBox.log doesn't show any problems.
  1. Did you try to change the size from within the guest?
  2. In VirtualBox preferences » Display » Maximum Guest Screen Size, is that set to Automatic?
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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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Hi Socratis, true on both count. Included is the GA install log which clearly states that there are problems, and X.org.0.log seems to suggest that most resolution do not work included are the files. I will also download a new Oracle developer day fresh run the update and then try to install the GA. I will keep you posted.
Thanks for your help
Jean-Frs
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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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Hi, the steps to reproduce are easy:
1. Download the latest version of Oracle Developer Day VM from June 2017 (the latest avail.) at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/datab ... 61299.html
2. Import the VM & logon as oracle then sudo yum update.
3. Update the GA to the latest version
4. Reboot and voilà the video driver is broken..
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Jean-Frs
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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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I can confirm the situation.
It might be some configuration that needs to be tweaked, but I don't know enough about OL to fix it...
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Re: Oracle Linux Kernel 4.1.12 Video drivers not working

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Hi Socratis, do you have any contact at Oracle that might help us with the situation?
Thanks
Jean-François
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