as the OP,..
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[ 220.369] (II) LoadModule: "vboxvideo"
[ 220.369] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vboxvideo
[ 220.369] (II) UnloadModule: "vboxvideo"
[ 220.369] (II) Unloading vboxvideo
[ 220.369] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 220.369] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[ 220.373] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 220.373] (EE)
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Fatal server error:
[ 220.373] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[ 220.373] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 220.373] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/garry/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 220.373] (EE)
[ 220.383] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
I have never noticed a option for this on VirtualBox, but that does not meant thereby debiman »---snip-virtualbox was configured for a cli-only install, and the virtual hardware to run a gui simply isn't there. just a wild idea.
how did you install, btw?
is not one, based on the errors, it seems to be "on the right track" so to speak.
More important, is how the OP installed, but , I just installed the same way I do
everything,...for example when I installed Minix3 to the VM, Xorg installed, and just worked, but anyway this is Debian,...so that does not matter. I will also look into this
more, and see if I can find anything in the VB configurations that will help.
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I could not get it to where startx will start as a normal user, but it does as
root, same as the OP,..and openbox runs fine, , Why ?
from what I could find, it is because no "guest additions" are available for
Debian stretch (testing) , that is what it showed me when I tried to install
guest additions,...
I know , it is not Debian, but the same could apply to Debian, in other words:from: http://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=user ... virtualbox
VirtualBox's guest additions are not available for MINIX3. Therefore, MINIX cannot correctly guess the screen resolution. The desired screen resolution has to be set manually in the xorg.conf file.
Without "guest additions", Debian stretch cannot correctly guess the screen resolution. The desired screen resolution has to be set manually in the xorg.conf file .
It goes on to explain how to do that, but I could not figure out how to do that
on Debian, for example, where to put the new xorg.conf file,?
Maybe KVM would work, or using Debian 8, or Debian 7 instead ?
I did not do any searches to see if there is a "guest additions" maybe available for Debian stretch, somewhere else, besides the debian repos,...
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Actually "guest additions" is available:
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/vir ... itions-iso
I did not have the "non-free" in my sources.list, so that is why it said it was
not available.
It is best to have that installed, before installing other packages, such as Xorg
though,..I am not sure if installing it now, and trying to reconfigure Xorg will work,...in any event I am to tired to try just now,..
If the OP had guest additions installed, then I don't know what else it might be,
they have not answered back , on what and how they installed VB, and set up the VM ...the guest additions is a important part.
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To me it is not important enough to pursue, since both OpenBsd, and Minix3,
"just worked", on a VirtualBox VM, both are minimal installations, with just Xorg and OpenBox, all though I do have a few applications (packages) I use also installed.
I think it would work, if one knows where to put the xorg.conf.new after they edit it, that is the part I can not figure out.
sorry for not being able to help.
