Lucid Lynx alpha in a virtual box -with normal 3d settings no mouse cursor

[Majestyx]

Binary package hint: xorg

i was install lucid lynx alpha1 tonight in a VM for the VM i set up 64MB GPU whit 3D settings in Virtualbox On the Host System i have a NV44 GeForce 7100GS

after setup and reboot i install the guest-cd from virtualbox. after the next reboot lucid starts whit normal 3D settings. i see no misc. if i disable the 3D settings. the misc was shown.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 10 20:45:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20091209)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox
Package: xorg 1:7.5~3ubuntu2
PciDisplay:
 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter [80ee:beef]
  Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
  Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
  Latency: 64
  Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-7-generic root=UUID=8a157560-d73f-4b87-b97a-93805d1b1797 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-7.10-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.5~3ubuntu2
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.1~rc2-1ubuntu1
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: xorg
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-7-generic i686
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH
dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2:
dmi.product.name: VirtualBox
dmi.product.version: 1.2
dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH
fglrx: Not loaded
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.32-7-generic

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

I have no idea what the problem is. Could you explain what is a "misc"?

[Majestyx (majestyx)]

sorry, i mean: mouse

in a VM-> if the normal 3D settings enabled i see no mouse. If i disable the 3D settings the mouse comes back.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

wonder if it's a virtualbox bug more than in X.

[mpcd (mpcd)]

I can confirm this. It only seems to occur when visual effects are enabled in Gnome. For me this happens with Virtualbox 3.1.0 hosting a Lucid guest (daily build). The mouse cursor becomes invisible as soon as the window manager is loaded, however it is still functional in that the desktop responds to the mouse moving around. Disabling visual effects brings the cursor back. Even then the system is unstable and frequently locks up.

The vbox mouse driver also seems to have some issues as it doesn't allow for running without "mouse capture" like it should.

I've tried the bundled guest additions as well as the version in the repository.

My guess is that these are all virtualbox issues but I figured it wouldn't hurt to have some clarity on this bug.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

I had the same issue with Lucid in VirtualBox 3.1.4beta2. It only started happening in the last week after I extensively edited xorg.conf to try and get displaylink drivers working. I fixed it by removing everything from xorg.conf except for:

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "VBoxMouse"
 Driver "vboxmouse"
 Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Lucid's X doesn't seem to auto-detect the vboxmouse driver, and without it the mouse is blank in VBox when 3d effects are enabled.

[BlackVodka (markus-burger1990)]

Can confirm it here with Karmic as host and Lucid as Guest, exactly what was written above, the 'workaround' with creating and editing the xorg.conf - file did the trick.