display corrupted

[radu.pop]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with the display of anything appearing inside the Virtualbox window (from the initial Sun logo to the loading image and finally the desktop of the guest). Colors/palette are broken, up to severe unusability of anything on screen. If I move arround/resize the display/switch to full screen or back things get back to normal until I move the mouse or I try to interact with the guest OS.

Some info about the host
- Linux Slackware 12.2, kernel 2.6.29.5
- X.Org X Server 1.6.2, using either radeon or radeonhd open source drivers
- Virtualbox 3.0.2

And the guest is an installation of Windows XP SP2

Screenshots can be seen at:
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/9649/vb1z.jpg
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5016/vb3c.jpg
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1186/vb2t.jpg

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

[Perryg]

Read this and see if it will help. http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17823

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[radu.pop]

Thank you very much, inspired by that post, I ran from the command line "XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 && VirtualBox".
It definetly fixed the issue. 3D is disabled, but it does not affect my needs.
Do you happen to know more about XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS? Is this an environmental setting for xorg server or is it VirtualBox related? Or should I just follow-through that post?

Again, a big thank you.