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OpenGL not working (Arch Linux)

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/opengl-not-working-arch-linux.141373/

arpanmukherjee1
arpanmukherjee1 Original post #1
May 27, 2011 at 2:24 PM
i installed Arch in VirtualBox on win7.
every thing is working fine except OpenGL
whenever desktop effects is acvited by OpenGL video gets corrupted

display manager : KDE4

# uname -a
Linux myhost 2.6.38-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 13 07:54:18 UTC 2011 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

# lspci -v


00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]



00:04.0 System peripheral: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Guest Service
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at d020
Memory at f0400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at f0800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
Kernel modules: vboxguest

arpanmukherjee1
Jun 2, 2011 at 10:08 AM
nobody faced this problem with arch ??
hellknight
Jun 2, 2011 at 12:28 PM
As far as I know, desktop effects are not supported by VirtualBox.. but, I can be wrong coz I never tried to activate desktop effects.. But I did try to enable Aero in Win 7 under VB but that wasn't success..
arpanmukherjee1
Jun 2, 2011 at 3:26 PM
ok. that might be the case.

still i will keep looking.