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Offbeat_Stuff

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Registered: 2020-04-10

Posts: 1

[VirtualBox]Unable to run lightdm with VMSVGA

I have install arch linux in virtualbox.
When I run it using VMSVGA and 3d acceleration lightdm does not load up.
It does run after switching to vboxsvga
I have installed
>>>pacman -Qe
amd-ucode 20200316.8eb0b28-1
autoconf 2.69-7
automake 1.16.2-1
base 2-2
binutils 2.34-2
bison 3.5.4-1
dhcpcd 8.1.7-1
dmenu 4.9-1
efibootmgr 16-2
fakeroot 1.24-2
firefox 75.0-1
flex 2.6.4-3
gcc 9.3.0-1
git 2.26.0-1
groff 1.22.4-3
grub 2:2.04-5
i3-gaps 4.18-1
i3blocks 1.5-3
i3lock 2.12-1
i3status 2.13-2
intel-ucode 20191115-3
lightdm 1:1.30.0-2
lightdm-gtk-greeter 1:2.0.7-1
linux 5.6.3.arch1-1
linux-firmware 20200316.8eb0b28-1
m4 1.4.18-3
make 4.3-1
network-manager-applet 1.16.0-1
networkmanager 1.22.10-1
os-prober 1.77-1
patch 2.7.6-8
pkgconf 1.6.3-3
pulseaudio 13.0-3
qemu 4.2.0-2
reflector 2020.3.21.2-1
sudo 1.8.31.p1-1
texinfo 6.7-2
tilix 1.9.3-7
vim 8.2.0510-1
wget 1.20.3-2
which 2.21-5
xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+899+gf66d3954-1
xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.16-1
xorg-server 1.20.8-1
zsh 5.8-1

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,388

Re: [VirtualBox]Unable to run lightdm with VMSVGA

Please use [ code ] [ /code ] tags without spaces for posting command output. Your two xf86-video packages won't do anything in a virtualbox, xf86-video-vmware should help however: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … _Additions