Bug 625642

Summary:	app-emulation/virtualbox-5.1.24 patch to avoid that nvidia-drivers cause screen flickering on guest with 3D enabled
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris Smith <chris>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) <polynomial-c>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bkohler, jstein, masterzorag, nitro, proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch works fine in user patches

Description Chris Smith 2017-07-19 15:16:00 UTC

Created attachment 485660 [details, diff]
patch works fine in user patches

Suggest an nvidia use flag for the virtualbox ebuilds applying the following patch which solves the screen flickering on guests such as Windows 10 with 3D enabled.

Patch is listed here:
https://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/ticket/13653/vbox-NVIDIA-fix-v2.patch.txt

Good write-up is here:
https://techblog.devlat.eu/2017/04/07/screen-flickering-in-virtualbox-with-3d-enabled/

Comment 1 Chris Smith 2017-07-19 15:18:21 UTC

The previously attached patch is for virtualbox-5.1.24.

Comment 2 Jared B. 2018-01-16 06:16:51 UTC

Thanks for the patch.  Windows 10 is pretty much unusable without this.

Comment 3 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2018-10-31 15:51:53 UTC

Please reopen if this still affects 5.2.x