Changeset 59963 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux/installer

Timestamp:

Mar 9, 2016 11:19:12 AM (9 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

bugref:8087: Additions/x11: support non-root X server: only build the kernel graphics driver on sufficiently recent kernels, and print a more detailed error message if it fails.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux/installer/vboxadd.sh (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux/installer/vboxadd.sh

@@ -315 +315 @@
     fi
     succ_msg
-    if expr `uname -r` '<' '2.6.27' > /dev/null; then
-        echo "Not building the VirtualBox advanced graphics driver as this Linux version is"
+    if expr `uname -r` '<' '3.11' > /dev/null; then
+        echo "Not building the VirtualBox kernel graphics driver as this Linux version is"
         echo "too old to use it."
     else
@@ -324 +324 @@
             --module-source $MODULE_SRC/vboxvideo \
             --no-print-directory install >> $LOG 2>&1; then
-            show_error "Look at $LOG to find out what went wrong.  All other modules were built successfully."
+            show_error "Building the graphics driver module failed.  Look at $LOG to find out what went wrong.  All other modules were built successfully."
         else
             succ_msg