Full screen corruption with Gnome 3. Unity problems

[ArthurDent]

Everything in the VBox log file and the guests Xorg file show that everything is happy so here again this points to the hosts graphics adapter. I looked up yours and found something interesting. See below.

• NVIDIA is the pioneer in advancing low power visual computing for notebooks. NVIDIA® HybridPower™ technology unleashes graphics performance when you need it, or switches to a lower power integrated GPU for longer battery life.

I mention this because I had another user that was having the same issue and all they needed to do was force the GPU to use the high graphics mode. Seemed that it would go into the low graphics mode and that will not work for Unity or Gnome3 especially for a virtual guest.

See if you can change this and if it fixes your issue.

Is this hybridpower the optimus technology? If so, my graphics card does not use optimus. I am using a GTX260M.

[Perryg]

I have no way of knowing since it is your. Just what nVidia says about it here http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_ge ... 0m_us.html
I do know that everything is pointing to the hosts graphics as the issue. Look and see even in bios in case they hide it there.

[bulletmark]

We should deal with the Unity issue first. If that will not work there is no way Gnome3 will.

Actually Perry, fyi that is not always true. E.g. the recent problem https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9863 only occurs with Unity, gnome-shell is/was fine.

[Perryg]

That's a different issue all together and MAC as host. Believe me when I told the OP what was and was not going to be the easiest to see what their issue was I know something about it.

[ArthurDent]

I have no way of knowing since it is your. Just what nVidia says about it here http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_ge ... 0m_us.html
I do know that everything is pointing to the hosts graphics as the issue. Look and see even in bios in case they hide it there.

Interesting. Well, I updated the driver with the one direct from Nvidia, rather than the MFG's website, just in case. I am certain that my laptop does not use the hybrid power function, but just to be sure I set it to maximum performance in the nvidia control panel. It looks like the problems with unity might be solved. I am still testing it, I will report back. At the moment, one question remains. Why would it work on the older driver on an older version of the software, but why would the old driver have problems on the newer version of the software?

Edit: Also, any ideas on why gnome 3 will not work at all anymore? I am only getting fallback mode on SUSE 12.1 and cinnamon is not loading either. Guest additions have been installed on both VMs

[Perryg]

For Gnome3 on the suse guest you need to set selinux to disabled and install the guest additions again or see if running /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup will finish installing the Guest additions video drivers after you have disabled selinux.

[ArthurDent]

For Gnome3 on the suse guest you need to set selinux to disabled and install the guest additions again or see if running /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup will finish installing the Guest additions video drivers after you have disabled selinux.

It looks like for cinnamon I didn't enable the 3d settings. After doing so, it seems to have loaded, although the hovering the mouse in the left corner thing doesn't work (which probably isn't related...or is it?). I got gnome 3 working on OpenSUSE as well, but hovering over the left corner doesn't automatically bring up the alternate window. Would this be a problem with VB or something on my host machine?

[Perryg]

Yeah the hover thing (hot corner). In a Windows the area is like 1 pixel by 1 pixel going full screen (host+f) you can hit it easier because it is the absolute stop location.

I know if I fiddle with it long enough it works but is a major pain in the you know what. I just use the keyboard shortcut (alt-f1)

[ArthurDent]

Yeah the hover thing (hot corner). In a Windows the area is like 1 pixel by 1 pixel going full screen (host+f) you can hit it easier because it is the absolute stop location.

I know if I fiddle with it long enough it works but is a major pain in the you know what. I just use the keyboard shortcut (alt-f1)

Sweet, thanks. Consider this issue resolved