Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.4

[Jason Andresen]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:40:20 -0600
Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com> 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

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