On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 20:04 -0400, David wrote: > On 10/4/2011 10:51 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 17:03 -0400, David wrote: > > > >> The 'advanced graphics' video feature in Virtualbox seldom works in > >> Rawhide and the current 'branched' package (currently Fedora 16) because > >> Virtualbox does not support alpha/beta/non-release versions of Xorg. > > > > F16 has xserver 1.11.1. I don't know how much more "released" you want > > it to be. > > > Virtualbox has said that they do not chase development software. > > As long as Rawhide has some Xorg that is *not* the current stable > released Xorg the video driver will not build. Period. 1.11.1 *is* the current stable release X.org. VirtualBox's error message can call it alpha/beta/non-released all it likes. That doesn't mean it's true. A more accurate description of the situation is 'Oracle will update VBox's guest additions to support new X.org releases as and when it damn well pleases, and as said guest additions are closed source, everyone else is tied to Oracle's schedule'. > There are some users that have older monitors that to not identify > themselves so that the resolution is not properly set. With a true > install or an install in a VDI. *Most* of those can never be set to > higher resolutions because system-config-display was killed. Even after > the proper video drivers for Virtualbox are built. That is the connection. "Can never"? Hardly. It's perfectly possible to do it in xorg.conf. It's just that no-one feels particularly inclined to maintain a GUI tweak tool for xorg.conf any more. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
