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So, I thought VB built up to xserver 1.16 if not 1.17.

I guess not? VB thinks it's experimental.

I reverted to 1.15.1 and pinned it for now.

How did you do this?

I looked a number of places, but couldn't figure it out. I'm currently using my client at 1024x768 resolution.

Thanks,
Rob

biffhero wrote:How did you do this?

I looked a number of places, but couldn't figure it out. I'm currently using my client at 1024x768 resolution.

Thanks,
Rob

once I saw it wouldn't build I restored the previous version from a backup and pinned it.

Do you still have the .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives/ ?

I think the output of "ls -alhrt /var/cache/apt/archives/ | grep xserver" and "dpkg -l | grep xserver" would set me on the right path. I'll hunt to download all of them, and then "dpkg -i ./*.deb"

Thanks,
Rob

I have exactly the same problem....upgraded and can't roll back because the old version is not in the repos anymore and i also not have it in /var/cache/apt/archives.
At the moment im also sitting here with an 1024x768 resolution.....but no troubles, the update is already in unstable (xserver 1.16) and the GA installer will work with that version.

<edit>
I guessed wrong. Debian is updating X to a version which is also not supported by the GA installer. 1.15.99 was recognised as beta version, 1.16.1 is an not supported version.....
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AMD1212 wrote:I have exactly the same problem....upgraded and can't roll back because the old version is not in the repos anymore and i also not have it in /var/cache/apt/archives.
At the moment im also sitting here with an 1024x768 resolution.....but no troubles, the update is already in unstable (xserver 1.16) and the GA installer will work with that version.

<edit>
I guessed wrong. Debian is updating X to a version which is also not supported by the GA installer. 1.15.99 was recognised as beta version, 1.16.1 is an not supported version.....
</edit>

AMD1212,

I will try the module from 1.16.1 later today, bypassing the installer altogether. Or, to be more accurate, letting the GA installer do it's thing, skipping the X video driver, and then copying it by hand.

Thanks for the pointer to unstable, I will try pinning unstable for xserver-*. I haven't been successful using pinning yet, but I'm sure the problem is on my end.

Rob

biffhero wrote: I will try the module from 1.16.1 later today

That was poorly worded. I meant, "I will try the 115 driver against the 1.16.1 xserver-xorg packages."

As an additional bit of information, I found GA version 4.3.13 in another thread on this forum. I haven't had any success with them, though.

Rob

As you can see in the history of this bug:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13207

There is a testversion of the GA's available now and on my machines its working.
https://www.virtualbox.org/download/tes ... -95180.iso

thanks for the link. Those worked for me as well. However, now I have other problems. nothing to do with VirtualBox however.

AMD1212 wrote:As you can see in the history of this bug:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13207

There is a testversion of the GA's available now and on my machines its working.
https://www.virtualbox.org/download/tes ... -95180.iso

That test version of the GA's got my xorg back as well with the xorg that came out of testing on 23 July, 2014.

Thanks!

Rob

OK GUYS!!!! Nice THANKS for being here. I was going crazy with latest sparky and this xorg stuff. all cool

I'm surprised Sparky is based on Jessie.

AMD1212 wrote:As you can see in the history of this bug:
[...]

There is a testversion of the GA's available now and on my machines its working.
[...]

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Just created this account to thank you for this info!
I was getting the "kernel headers were not found" error and this GA version worked as it should.

Edit: installing a guest Ubuntu 14.04

Thank you all!
Cheers.
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