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Hi All,

I am working on enabling graphics acceleration in a Ubuntu 9.4 guest.
I have installed 'guest additions' and checked the 3D acceleration box. When I enable visual effects in Ubuntu an error is returned: "Desktop effects could not be enabled".
The virtualbox log reads:

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00:06:28.281 OpenGL Warning: Render SPU: WGL wants these visual capabilities: RGB, Doublebuffer, Z
00:06:28.284 OpenGL Warning: Render SPU: WGL chose these visual capabilities: RGBA, Doublebuffer, Z, Stencil, Accum
00:06:28.300 OpenGL Info: Render SPU: GL_VENDOR:   Intel
00:06:28.300 OpenGL Info: Render SPU: GL_RENDERER: Intel 965/963 Graphics Media Accelerator
00:06:28.300 OpenGL Info: Render SPU: GL_VERSION:  1.5.0 - Build 6.14.10.4796
00:06:28.410 OpenGL Warning: Render SPU: WGL wants these visual capabilities: RGB, Doublebuffer, Z
00:06:28.413 OpenGL Error: SetPixelFormat failed (Error 0xc007001f)
00:06:28.413 OpenGL Warning: Render SPU: WGL chose these visual capabilities: RGB, Doublebuffer, Z
00:06:28.415 OpenGL Error: Render SPU: (MakeCurrent) failed to make 0x190105cf, 0x10001 current with 0x6 error.

Further troubleshooting advice or workarounds would be appreciated.

Regards

Huss

P.S. My graphics card is an 'Intel 965 Express chipset family'.

What version of VirtualBox are you using?
It may be that your graphics card does not have what it takes to get the 3D Effect to work since the log reports you do not have what it needs.

I'm using VBox 2.2. The graphic card specs are on this site: http://support.intel.com/products/chips ... /index.htm.

Here's a grab from that site:

High Performance 3D
Up to 4 pixels per clock rendering
Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Hardware Acceleration Features:
Pixel Shader 2.0
Volumetric Textures
Shadow Maps
Slope Scale Depth Bias
Two-Sided Stencil
Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Vertex Shader 3.0 and Transform and Lighting supported in software through highly optimized Processor Specific Geometry Pipeline (PSGP)
Texture Decompression for DirectX* and OpenGL*
OpenGL* 1.4 support plus ARB_vertex_buffer and EXT_shadow_funcs extensions and TexEnv shader caching

There were some issues with version 2.2.0 and 3D Effects with Ubuntu Jaunty. Why not try Version 2.2.4 it has been out for a bit and there have been plenty of improvements.

I would like to, but it's quite an ordeal to get anything installed with my work IT policy. It took a month to get Virtualbox installed in the first place. I'll give it a go though

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