Display problems in guest OS gnome-terminal

[zakiwi]

Hi there,

Host Hardware: Intel Quad Q6600, 8GM Ram, 2 x NVidia 9600GT Graphics Cards
Host Software: Debian Lenny i386 Bigmem Kernel

This is a pretty weird problem. After installing the guest addons into the guest os (Debian Lenny (i386 or AMD64)), everything works great ... except ... I get filled character blocks in gnome-terminal when I type commands.

It's really frustrating because you can't see what you're typing. Some characters do show correctly, but I'd say that 70% of them are filled blocks.

Is there anything that I can do to try and fix this?

Cheers

Zakiwi

[frank]

Which VBox version? Do you run the Debian kernel in the guest (2.6.26) or do you run any different kernel?

[zakiwi]

Thanks for your reply.

VBox is 3.2.6

Both host and guest are Debian Lenny 2.6.26-2

Kind regards

Zakiwi

[frank]

Hmm, then I don't have an idea. As your guest kernel is 2.6.26 this cannot be a 3D issue (3D not supported with VBox 3.2.6 guests). Any chance to update the driver for your host graphics card?

[Sasquatch]

Can you post a screenshot of the problem in action too?