Re: [Cooker] [Beta1] X fail to start in virtualbox when using mini CD

[James Kerr]

On Friday 01 August 2008, Vincent Panel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a bug which I'd like to report, but I don't know exactly what
> component is supposed to do what. When I use the miniCD to install a
> 2009 beta1 in virtualbox, it fails because the virtualbox driver
> doesn't exist on the miniCD and my xorg.conf explicitely wants to load
> this driver.
>
> Now, where does the bug lies ?
> 1) Shouldn't Xorg falls back to vesa when the driver isn't found ?
> 2) Shouldn't the installer put the "vesa" driver in xorg.conf if
> virtualbox card is detected ?
> 3) Shouldn't the miniCD include the virtualbox driver ?
>
> Note that it's the same for the mouse : the input driver doesn't exist
> on the miniCD too.
>

See:

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42064


Jim