VirtualBox, 3D acceleration & GNOME - icons are not visible

[nu2openS]

I installed OpenSUSE 13.2 with GNOME in VirtualBox (version 4.3.26 running on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit) with 3D acceleration enabled. When selecting Activities > Show Applications > All several pages are shown, but no icons are displayed. On the other hand, if I disable the 3D acceleration, all the icons are visible. When searching for an application and while 3D acceleration is enabled the application icons are only displayed when the result contains 4 or less matching applications. Is there a solution for this problem? Or is this a known bug?

[loukingjr]

I'm thinking it's your install.
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[loukingjr]

I installed it on both OSX and Win 8.1 hosts. Worked fine with 3D enabled.

You should attach the vbox.log (compressed) to a message.

[nu2openS]

Yes, that's how it looks like without 3D acceleration. With 3D acceleration enabled it looks like in the attached screenshot. I did a plain vanilla OpenSUSE installation - just clicked next with only one change: GNOME desktop instead of KDE. Btw, host hardware is Lenovo ThinkPad T430s with an Intel HD Graphics 4000 and 1600x900 resolution; guest has 1024x768 resolution. One additional info: I just tried Ubuntu GNOME (live) in the same VM and here the icons are shown correctly even with 3D acceleration enabled. So it looks like a problem specific to GNOME on OpenSUSE 13.2 in conjunction with the VirtualBox Guest Additions.

[loukingjr]

Did you try the OpenSUSE 13.2 Gnome LiveCD? That's what I used to install.

[nu2openS]

I used: openSUSE-13.2-DVD-x86_64.iso to install openSUSE. That is the official, latest stable 4.7GB DVD available for download when go to the openSUSE homepage.

[loukingjr]

try http://download.opensuse.org/distributi ... x86_64.iso

[nu2openS]

Will give it at try tonight, when I have a faster internet connection and will tell you how it works.

[loukingjr]

good luck

[nu2openS]

no luck - installed openSUSE 13.2 from the GNOME live ISO, but same behavior with 3D acceleration enabled (icons not visible - icons are only visible if I disable 3D acceleration here too).

VM settings:
* memory: 2048 MB
* VDI: 40 GB, dynamically allocated
* CPU: 2 processors
* display memory: 128 MB
* 3D acceleration: enabled
* 1 shared folder with auto-mount
otherwise default settings for VM as proposed by Virtualbox:
* Motherboard > Chipset: PIIX3
* Pointing Device: USB Tablet
* I/O APIC enabled
* PAE/NX disabled
* VT-x/AMD-V enabled
* Nested Paging enabled
etc.

Btw, the shared folder is not mounted automatically as /media is not created by the VirtualBox guest additions that are installed by default in openSUSE.

[loukingjr]

Your settings are nearly identical to mine. I have VRAM set to 64MB but I hardly think that is the difference. I don't know why yours behaves differently. Perhaps someone better versed in Linux and OpenSuse specifically will know.

You might want to check the OpenSUSE forums.

[nu2openS]

You might want to check the OpenSUSE forums.

That's where I posted the problem first - no reply so far. Looks like I am the only one in the world experiencing this behavior - Maybe it's the host - do you also have Win 7 as host?

[loukingjr]

I tried it on an OSX and a Win 8.1 host. I don't think that is the reason. I suppose it could have something to do with your graphics card/gpu since you can see the icons with 3D disabled.

[Perryg]

What does the following say about the 3D acceleration of the guest?

Run in the guests terminal

Code: Select all

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

Also you were asked to provide the guests log file (as an attachment) provide this or no one can actually help you.

[loukingjr]

Perry, I am curious about this part of the output…

libGL error: core dri or dri2 extension not found
libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideo <- ?
OpenGL vendor string: Humper
OpenGL renderer string: Chromium
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Chromium 1.9
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20