From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 20:56:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3294F106566B for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 20:56:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com) Received: from tethys.ringofsaturn.com (tethys.ringofsaturn.com [71.252.219.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E134E8FC14 for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 20:56:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ASSP.nospam (tethys [71.252.219.43]) (authenticated bits=0) by tethys.ringofsaturn.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p26Ku9ZL053533; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:56:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com) Received: from mail.ringofsaturn.com ([71.252.219.43] helo=mail.ringofsaturn.com) with IPv4:25 by ASSP.nospam; 6 Mar 2011 14:56:08 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:56:08 -0600 From: Rusty Nejdl To: Jason Andresen Mail-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <20110306140624.39c81283.jandrese@vt.edu> References: <20110224111758.840e6e3e.jandrese@vt.edu> <27b65be99e21f2e2552163d0224d28c4@ringofsaturn.com> <20110306140624.39c81283.jandrese@vt.edu> Message-ID: X-Sender: rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.6-svn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:56:10 -0000 On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:06:24 -0500, Jason Andresen wrote: > On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:40:20 -0600 > Rusty Nejdl wrote: > >> Can you give the 260.19.29 version of the NVIDIA driver a try? It's a stable version and there's a problem report to update the nvidia driver that hasn't been committed yet. This is what mine shows for glxinfo: OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 460/PCI/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 4.1.0 NVIDIA 260.19.29 OpenGL shading language version string: 4.10 NVIDIA via Cg compiler That's about the only idea I have. The opengl that your card supports is a major rev behind what mine does. I'm not sure what version VirtualBox requires. > I think the OpenGL version difference is mostly about stuff like the number of instructions you can program in a shader program and stuff like that. I don't think it's the issue here. It shouldn't be a surprise that my card is a version behind, it's getting on 5 years old now. Still, it's a very capable card, and simply asking it to get a GL context ready shouldn't crash VirtualBox. Anyway, updating the driver didn't help. It's still failing in exactly the same way, the only difference is now glxinfo reports: OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8800 GTX/PCI/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 260.19.29 OpenGL shading language version string: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler Jason, Yeah, I know... I was reaching for ideas. I'm not seeing any crashing. I do agree that your card is pretty capable and I just recently upgraded from a 9600 as well. The only issues I've had so far are incompatibilities of software within my virtual machines themselves but my Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and Windows XP vm's all run perfectly with all appropriate levels of acceleration. Rusty Nejdl Links: ------ [1] mailto:rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com