vboxvideo 4.3.6 for Solaris 11 on XStreamDesktop/illumos OpenGL problems

[gabriele.bulfon]

We're testing the new 4.3.6 additions that delivers vboxvideo for Solaris with X11 1.13.1 and 1.14.5 on our XStream Desktop based on illumos. It mainly works fine both with X 1.13.1 and X 1.14.5, but it shows problem with cairo-dock in OpenGL mode (-o).

Because previously vbox was not delivering any X driver later than 1.12.x on Solaris, we used to provide our own build of additions, modified to work with 1.13.1 and 1.14.5, and worked fine, also in OpenGL mode.

The current public beta1 of XStream Desktop features X 1.13.1, and it has the same problem: using 4.3.6. additions breaks cairo-dock.

Debugging cairo sources, we've seen it's looking for a stencil buffer + transparency visual, and vboxvideo answer with one that cairo picks up and use, but then all is painted bad (a big black box an all the horizontal area of the dock, glitching, and more bugs).

Also, Xorg.0.log shows strange errors during startup. The vboxvideo is correctly loaded, but then later:

[    93.819] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[    95.810] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
[    95.810] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
[    95.810] drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[    95.810] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[    95.811] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
[    95.811] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
[    95.811] drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[    95.811] [drm] failed to load kernel module "vboxvideo"
[    95.811] (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.
[    95.811] (EE) VBoxVideo(0): DRIScreenInit failed, disabling DRI.

You can testdrive the system downloading the iso here: ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/xstreamos

In the files section you may also download our own additions to check that they work (built on vbox 4.2.18).

Last but not least, no XVideo support, xvinfo shows no screen capable of XVideo. Do vboxvideo supports it?

Thanks for any help, Gabriele.

[Michael Thayer]

Sorry we haven't got around to looking at this yet. Is it still an issue? The Xorg.0.log errors reported are expected and a consequence of the slightly unclean way we handle 3D on Solaris - we simply replace libgl, like the binary NVidia and AMD drivers do.

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.