[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox Xorg video driver compatible with 1.19.5

Aurélien Larcher aurelien.larcher at gmail.com
Sat Nov 11 21:43:22 UTC 2017


Hi

>
> I'm doing something wrong here, but I'm not sure what.
> I ran pkg update to (presumably) get the new xorg package.
> Then I did a pkgrm SUNWvboxguest and rebooted
> Then tried to do a reinstall from the autorun prompt -and got the usual
> error about the xorg libraries.
>
> I checked the xorg log and didn't find any autoconfiguration lines.
>

I am sure what is the logic with metapackages.

pkg info x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video-vboxvideo

should report that the package is installed.

Otherwise you need to install it manually.

No xorg.conf was required in my virtual machine.



>
> This is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf (autoconfigured when I chose the vesa option
> to start the installer dvd/iso);
> root at virtdiana:/var/log# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "vesa"
> EndSection
>
> ...that's it. I ran "pkg search vb" to try to find the driver you're
> talking about, but nothing came up.
>
>
>
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