No Xorg guest additions in Ubuntu Intrepid / Fedora9 => Fixed with 2.0.2.

[peter76]

When trying to install the guest additions under Ubuntu Intrepid as guest, the kernel modules build and install fine, but I get this when the installer gets to the Xorg modules:

Detected xorg 1.5 rcx, refusing to install the xorg modules. We will provide updated guest additions once xorg 1.5.0 was released finally.

Any idea when this will be fixed?

[Thomas Novin]

Isn't there any workaround to install it anyway? I'm also using Intrepid.

[Frank Mehnert]

Xorg 1.5 has some major changes in handling mouse devices which is currently a showstopper for porting the VBoxMouse driver.

[PeteCox]

So what about the auto-resize feature? Could the display driver be enabled separately to the mouse driver?

[Frank Mehnert]

In fact, with 2.0.2 the mouse integration will work but the dynamic resizing will not work for Fedora9 (it will work for Ubuntu Intrepid). The problem with Fedora9 is that they use Xorg 1.5.0 RC5 which contains a bug making the Xorg server crash under certain conditions. We disabled the dynamic resizing feature for this Xorg version (we filed a bug report to Fedora as well). As soon as they upgrade to at least RC6, dynamic resizing should work as well.

[Michael Thayer]

For anyone interested - ​https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461666

[Clayton Dukes]

Replying to sandervl73:

Why was this marked as fixed? I just installed a new copy (v2.02) today and it's still not working.

[Thomas Novin]

xorg 1.5.0 is surely released so that shouldn't be an issue. In Ubuntu Intrepid there now xserver-xorg-core 1.5.2-2ubuntu1.

[Michael Thayer]

cdukes: Have you also installed the guest additions from 2.0.2?

[Clayton Dukes]

Replying to michael:

cdukes: Have you also installed the guest additions from 2.0.2?

Yes, I did.

[Thomas Novin]

How do I unsubscribe from this bug? Yeez how Trac sucks compared to Launchpad (or the VirtualBox teams implementation of it..)

[Michael Thayer]

cdukes: which of those two guest systems are you using, and what exactly is not working? ThomasNovin: I don't think that is possible, but I will see what I can do. We did not actually implement anything ourselves, but just used trac as is (we prefer to spend as much development time as possible on VirtualBox itself) and Launchpad is not yet open source.

[Clayton Dukes]

Replying to michael:

cdukes: which of those two guest systems are you using, and what exactly is not working?

The guest is Ubuntu Intrepid, the host is XP Pro SP3

[Michael Thayer]

cdukes: You only answered half of my question :)

[Clayton Dukes]

Replying to michael:

cdukes: You only answered half of my question :)

Oops, sorry I missed that :-) I'm unable to resize the guest or use seamless mode.

[Michael Thayer]

What output does "xrandr" produce if you run it in a console window in the guest? Seamless works fine here in an Ubuntu Intrepid guest.

[Clayton Dukes]

Replying to michael:

What output does "xrandr" produce if you run it in a console window in the guest? Seamless works fine here in an Ubuntu Intrepid guest.

Sorry, I gave up and moved on... I'm installing Ubuntu this weekend and dumping windows altogether.

[Michael Thayer]

I will mark this as fixed again, since all cases that we were able to pursue were fixed. I suspect that you had modeline entries in the guest's xorg.conf file, which can interfere with dynamic resizing.