Mint Cinnamon crashes with 3D acceleration

Discussion:

Christof Kluß

2014-03-13 17:30:47 UTC

Hi

Mint 16 Cinnamon works with software rendering on VirtualBox 4.3.8
(Windows 8.1 64 Bit Host)

But with activate 3D-acceleration only boots, but on "desktop loading"
it shut down.

Do you have an idea how I can try to solve this problem?

thx
Christof

Mike Newell

2014-03-13 21:40:16 UTC

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Same problem, posted a few days ago, no response. Maybe a bug? If so
I looked in the bug log and it's not been reported. This started
happening after the 4.3.8 upgrade on both Debian/Ubuntu and Red Hat
VMs. Even if it boots into the desktop as soon as I run Firefox the VM
crashes hard.

What host are you using? What kind of graphics card do you have? I have
two - an ATI Radeon HD 5450 card and an Intel HD Graphics 4000 on the
CPU chip.

Interesting! I figured since I had one monitor on the ATI card and one
on the Intel chipset maybe it's a chipset/driver issue. So I booted up a
Linux Mint system on the monitor driven by the Intel chipset. Blam -
died as it displayed the desktop. Then I booted the same VM up on the
monitor driven by the ATI card. Booted no problem. Then I moved the
display window from the ATI-driven monitor to the Intel-driven monitor.
Blam - died.

Same sort of behavior with XUbuntu. Boot the VM on the ATI-driven
monitor. No problem. Run Firefox. No problem. Move the VM display
window to the Intel-driven monitor. Instant crash.

Further test: Boot the same XUbuntu VM on the Intel-driven monitor. No
problem. Move display to the ATI-driven monitor. No problem. Launch
Firefox. No problem. Move display window to Intel-driven monitor. No
problem. Open new Firefox window. Instant crash.

Bug in the Intel driver? Driver confusion? This didn't used to happen;
used to be I could move VM display windows across monitors all day with
no issues.

Mike

Post by Christof KluÃ
Hi
Mint 16 Cinnamon works with software rendering on VirtualBox 4.3.8
(Windows 8.1 64 Bit Host)
But with activate 3D-acceleration only boots, but on "desktop loading"
it shut down.
Do you have an idea how I can try to solve this problem?
thx
Christof
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Christof Kluß

2014-03-14 08:59:09 UTC

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Hi Mike

it is an intel onboard card too:

Host is a Dell System 780
Chipset: Intel A45 (Eaglelake-Q) + ICH10DO

GPU
Intel Q45/Q43 Chipset - Integrated Graphics 0 [A3] [DELL]
Intel GMA 4500(M)(HD)

Microsoft Windows 8.1 Professional (x64) Build 9600

You can find similar problems the last few month but I cannot find a
solution. But it seems to have to do with the virtualization, on
"normal" systems these problems not occur.

The Guest is Linux Mint with Cinnamon - 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP
Wed Oct 9 16:20:46 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Guest additions are installed.

Greetings
Christof

Post by Mike Newell
Same problem, posted a few days ago, no response. Maybe a bug? If so
I looked in the bug log and it's not been reported. This started
happening after the 4.3.8 upgrade on both Debian/Ubuntu and Red Hat
VMs. Even if it boots into the desktop as soon as I run Firefox the VM
crashes hard.
What host are you using? What kind of graphics card do you have? I have
two - an ATI Radeon HD 5450 card and an Intel HD Graphics 4000 on the
CPU chip.
Interesting! I figured since I had one monitor on the ATI card and one
on the Intel chipset maybe it's a chipset/driver issue. So I booted up a
Linux Mint system on the monitor driven by the Intel chipset. Blam -
died as it displayed the desktop. Then I booted the same VM up on the
monitor driven by the ATI card. Booted no problem. Then I moved the
display window from the ATI-driven monitor to the Intel-driven monitor.
Blam - died.
Same sort of behavior with XUbuntu. Boot the VM on the ATI-driven
monitor. No problem. Run Firefox. No problem. Move the VM display
window to the Intel-driven monitor. Instant crash.
Further test: Boot the same XUbuntu VM on the Intel-driven monitor. No
problem. Move display to the ATI-driven monitor. No problem. Launch
Firefox. No problem. Move display window to Intel-driven monitor. No
problem. Open new Firefox window. Instant crash.
Bug in the Intel driver? Driver confusion? This didn't used to happen;
used to be I could move VM display windows across monitors all day with
no issues.
Mike

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