[arch-general] vbox - X won't start -> no screens -> "vboxvideo" (module requirement mismatch, 0)

[Jesse Juhani Jaara]

ma, 2012-03-12 kello 21:52 -0500, David C. Rankin kirjoitti:
> If I understand you correctly, it was the update within
> virtual box of Xorg 1.11 -> 1.12 that left the guest unable to start X due to
> the vboxvideo.so not being compatible with 1.12.
Yes that is the driver cimpiled for xorg 1.11 API I did a svn checkout
with a support for 1.12. [1]Here is the compile driver for 1.12. It may
or may not work. Decompres it to
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo.so

> what is it that triggers the packager to know it's broken and needs
> rebuilding?
> User reports? Some kind of automated ldd check? Just curious and
> trying to learn...
User reports unless the packager him/herself notices that first

[1]http://huulivoide.pp.fi/Arch/vboxvideo_drv_112.so.xz
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