AlpineLinux 3.4.6 & VirtualBox & XFCE

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#1 Thu, 2016-11-17 15:45

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Has anyone been successful at bringing up XFCE under VirtualBox? I've followed the wiki page on XFCE. I've also added virtualbox-additions-grsec-4.4.32-r0.apk from http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/. I get a black screen of death starting lxdm.

lxdm.log say lxdm-greeter-gtk cannot open display.
Xorg.0.log indicates module 'vboxvideo' does not exist; VESA loads and it reports Oracle VM VirtualBox Version 5.1.8

Thanks for any help.

-ted

#2 Fri, 2016-11-18 13:55

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[SOLVED] Use 3.5.0 RC2 standard.

To confirm, do:

1) setup-xorg-base
2) apk add xfce4 slim
3) apk add xf86-video-vmware xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard
4) rc-service dbus start
5) rc-service slim start

If this works, you can edit repositories, include community, apk update, apk add alpine-desktop. With that you get lxdm which you need to use instead of slim at that point.