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P@trick

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Registered: 2007-12-09

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VirtualBox: KDE Compiz does not work

Hi,

I have installed Arch in VirtualBox and installed the GuestAdditions sucessfully (everything works: Mouse, Colour Deep, etc.)

But I cant enable the Compiz effects and also the taskbar isnt transparent. Of course Ive enabled 3D in the Menu with 128MB RAM.

[patrick@archlinux ~]$ dmesg | grep vbox
vboxadd: Successfully loaded version 3.0.4 (interface 0x00010004)
vboxvfs: Successfully loaded version 3.0.4 (interface 0x00010004)
[drm] Initialized vboxvideo 1.0.0 20090303 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

Does anyone know what to do?

Greetings
Patrick

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: VirtualBox: KDE Compiz does not work

You say you can't enable the Compiz effects -- please be exact. What happens?

Also please post the output of

glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"; xdpyinfo | grep Composite

And, you say KDE Compiz. Compiz in KDE4? KDE3? Or do you mean the 3D effects of the default KWin window manager in KDE4?

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-08-09 02:31:24)

P@trick

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Registered: 2007-12-09

Posts: 14

Re: VirtualBox: KDE Compiz does not work

I mean the 3D effects of KWin in KDE4. When I try to activate them i get:

Well I tryed the Composie type Xrender and OpenGL, but none of them worked.

$ glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"; xdpyinfo | grep Composite gives me:

direct rendering: Yes
    Composite

and hers my xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
   Identifier   "VirtualBox Video Device"
   Driver      "vboxvideo"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier   "VirtualBox Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier   "Default Screen"
   Monitor      "VirtualBox Monitor"
   Device      "VirtualBox Video Device"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "vboxmouse"
        Driver          "vboxmouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"        0 0
        InputDevice     "vboxmouse"
EndSection

Last edited by P@trick (2009-08-10 13:19:11)

sovok_kpss

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From: Perm, Russia

Registered: 2009-08-11

Posts: 9

Re: VirtualBox: KDE Compiz does not work

Unfortunately I have the same problem.

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Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

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Re: VirtualBox: KDE Compiz does not work

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Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-08-11 15:02:00)

P@trick

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Registered: 2007-12-09

Posts: 14

Re: VirtualBox: KDE Compiz does not work

After a half day of reading and trying i gave up with that problem. It seems like there is an error on the installation of the guest addionals. The video driver of virtual box can not be installed correctly, because the kernel-headers of arch arent vanilla. They removed some essential parts (DTM or so...) for the installation.

I tryed a Snapshot of the next version of Kubuntu and the KDE4 effect worked with xrendering (not with opengl) Well I think without building an own kernel there is no other solution for this problem then waiting of new packages.

Hers my thread on vmware forums: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21131

Last edited by P@trick (2009-08-11 20:04:24)

Wintervenom

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Re: VirtualBox: KDE Compiz does not work

Modify the kernel PKGBUILD so that it does not strip the headers and set it to state that it provides the kernel-headers package, extract the VirtualBox guest extensions installer, and make a symlink to includes/drm in test_drm and vboxvideo_drm, and re-compile the guest extensions.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-08-11 21:28:48)

sovok_kpss

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From: Perm, Russia

Registered: 2009-08-11

Posts: 9

Re: VirtualBox: KDE Compiz does not work

Wintervenom, did you mean that we need to do something about this:
(the bad line from PKGBUILD has already removed and kernel-headers reinstalled)

$ pwd
/home/rdcrypt/vbox/module/vboxvideo_drm
$ ln -s /usr/include/drm drm
$ cd ../test_drm
$ ln -s /usr/include/drm drm

and then reinstall additions by running install.sh?
If so, this doesn't work

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