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sjb933

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Registered: 2007-01-18

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[SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

I'm not exactly new to Arch or linux in general, but I wasn't sure where else to post this.  I'm having a really odd issue.

If I load up my Windows XP virtual machine in virtualbox, when the virtual machine window has focus -- and ONLY when it has focus, the entire screen goes to negative/inverted colors.  I'm not talking about just the Windows XP window itselt, but the entire screen.  I can click off the virtual machine, giving focus to any other window and the colors go back to normal.  Focus the virtual machine and BAM, inverted.

Oddly enough, this only happens when I'm not using compiz-fusion.  That is, it happens only when nautilus is my window manager.  If I select compiz as my window manager, the problem no longer exists.  Here's a photo for reference (I cannot take a screenshot, because that steals focus and then the screen corrects itself.

BTW: this happens with both the latest OSE and BIN versions of VirtualBox.

If it helps, I'm running Arch on a Thinkpad T42 with a mobility radeon 9600 using no xorg.config file and the open source ati driver.  I have the guest additions installed in the XP virtualmachine.

Virtual machine running, unfocussed.

Virtual machine focussed... screen inverted.

Last edited by sjb933 (2009-08-06 16:39:36)

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

Yeah, I'm getting that too - haven't looked into it yet. No DE here, just Openbox.

sjb933

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

Odd... well, keep me posted if u figure anything out.  It may be a vbox bug, but i havent found much info searching around

djszapi

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

Hello krazyshane!

Did it work with earlier version of Vbox ? Couldn't it work with archlinux only ?

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R00KIE

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

I'm running arch64, xfce and running on the xf86-video-ati-git (radeonhd 2400) and with the latest virtualbox I don't see that behavior.

Edit:
Correct typo.

Last edited by R00KIE (2009-07-31 19:54:34)

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flamelab

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

@those who have this problem: Have you tried to see what happens without an xorg.conf ? And if you want a full xorg.conf, try disabling options one by one.

djszapi

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

It can be a long history in some case, to remove with one line the whole

Couldn't it work with archlinux only ?

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sjb933

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Registered: 2007-01-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

As my first post says, I'm running without an xorg.config file.  Also, I can't tell you if previous versions had this problem or not as I just acquired this laptop and it's a fresh install.

:shrug:

coolaman

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

Look here for a solution :

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15616?st … ect=1&type

Last edited by coolaman (2009-08-01 03:39:18)

bond

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2009-05-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

I too am having this issue,

running either xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-ati-git makes no difference ... (i did a git update of ati today, didn't fix it)

launching vbox with;  env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 VirtualBox   causes the colour inversion

launching without causes it to stuff up all other programs trying to use xv as a video output ...
now I can't watch vids :'(

eidt; I'm using openbox as my wm, & xfce4 panel

Last edited by bond (2009-08-02 10:49:25)

tomk

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

bond - did you read the bug report referenced by coolaman? The workaround there worked for me.

bond

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2009-05-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

indeed cheers, recompiling ati-dri with the mesa patch fixed the issue

sjb933

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

The latest updates fixed this issue