[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#525317: Bug#525317: virtualbox-ose-qt: graphics corruption in QT frontend

[Joseph Rawson]

On Thursday 23 April 2009 11:53:52 Christian Ohm wrote:
> Package: virtualbox-ose-qt
> Version: 2.2.0-dfsg-3
> Severity: important
>
> Hello,
>
> The QT frontend doesn't show correct graphics for me (I'm using a Radeon
> X800GTO with the free radeon driver, fvwm, no fancy compiz or stuff).
> Running the VM shows what looks like random crap from graphics ram, with
> some parts somewhat resembling what should be shown on screen. Pausing the
> VM shows something like a scanlined greyscale version of the correct screen
> (which I guess is used for pause mode, but since I just started playing
> around with Virtualbox I don't know if that's what should actually be
> shown), continuing then keeps that, and updates only some parts of the
> screen (like before not really correct). Running the same VM in vboxgtk
> works without problems.
>
Those grey lines that show up when the machine is paused have been around for 
a while.  I think it's normal behavior.  I've never really messed with 
vboxgtk, so I can't speak for it.

Also, I've noticed that when working on the console in the virtualbox-qt 
frontend, when the screen blanks, the characters that are bold (or intense) 
remain on the screen, while the rest of the screen goes blank.  While that 
might be a minor bug, that's the way all of the consoles have behaved since 
I've been using virtualbox.  I doubt that this is what you are are talking 
about when referring to random crap, but I wanted to let you know anyway.

> Best regards,
> Christian Ohm
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages virtualbox-ose-qt depends on:
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.26       Debian configuration
> management sy ii  libc6                       2.9-7        GNU C Library:
> Shared libraries ii  libgcc1                     1:4.3.3-8    GCC support
> library
> ii  libqt4-network              4.4.3-2      Qt 4 network module
> ii  libqtcore4                  4.4.3-2      Qt 4 core module
> ii  libqtgui4                   4.4.3-2      Qt 4 GUI module
> ii  libsdl1.2debian             1.2.13-4+b1  Simple DirectMedia Layer
> ii  libstdc++6                  4.3.3-8      The GNU Standard C++ Library
> v3 ii  libx11-6                    2:1.2.1-1    X11 client-side library ii 
> libxcursor1                 1:1.1.9-1    X cursor management library ii 
> libxext6                    2:1.0.4-1    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
> ii  virtualbox-ose              2.2.0-dfsg-3 x86 virtualization solution -
> base
>
> virtualbox-ose-qt recommends no packages.
>
> virtualbox-ose-qt suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information



-- 
Thanks:
Joseph Rawson
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