Unofficial VBox Additions - vbxgradd.dll

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi Valerius

I'm experiencing an issue with your Vbox vbxgradd.dll video GRADD.

When the pointer change it icon on some parts of the desktop, the image get "partially freeze" and I need to do a fresh, like "maximize the window" to restore the normal looks. I hope the attachments explains my issue in a better way.

If I change the driver to Panorama I don't get this issue anymore.

Regards

[Valery Sedletski]

2Martin: Unfortunately, I have no access to VBXGRADD sources -- binary only form. (As well as to VBoxMouse sources).
So, please, ask Knut/Oracle. I'm not sure about Panorama in VBox, but I experienced the same glitch with Panorama in
VirtualPC, so it seems to be a common GRADD drivers issue.

PS: Note that VBXGRADD is a renamed GENGRADD from Knut/Oracle version. It is just the same. It's renamed to avoid
collision with ordinary version of gengradd.dll.

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi

Just in case I changed to the Oracle's provides GENGRADD, and I no longer have the issue.

This is is the one that came with VirtualBox 6.1.2
gengradd.dll -  1-13-2020 -   65,728  bytes.  (no bldlevel)

I changed the config.sys to:
SET C1=GRADD

Can you give it a try?

Regards

[Valery Sedletski]

2Martin: yes, set c1=gengradd (not gradd).
I can try updating it, of course.

[Martin Iturbide]

Thanks

I tried again with "set c1=gengradd".
No video section freezing issues, it seems to work fine.

Regards

[mauro]

Hi

Just in case I changed to the Oracle's provides GENGRADD, and I no longer have the issue.

This is is the one that came with VirtualBox 6.1.2
gengradd.dll -  1-13-2020 -   65,728  bytes.  (no bldlevel)

I changed the config.sys to:
SET C1=GRADD


Regards

Hi Martin, do you mean that upgrading to virtualbox 6.1.2 is just enough to get new gengradd.dll version working, or should be then copied/replaced in someway before changing that config.sys line?
Sorry if this is a very basic question, but nothing seems to be simple for me, even if after your suggestions I can mostly apply any solution I need 

[Valery Sedletski]

2mauro: He meant that gengradd.dll from latest VBox 6.1.2 additiuons fixed the issue. My version has it.

[mauro]

2mauro: He meant that gengradd.dll from latest VBox 6.1.2 additiuons fixed the issue. My version has it.

ok, thank you

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi Martin, do you mean that upgrading to virtualbox 6.1.2 is just enough to get new gengradd.dll version working, or should be then copied/replaced in someway before changing that config.sys line?
Sorry if this is a very basic question, but nothing seems to be simple for me, even if after your suggestions I can mostly apply any solution I need 

Hi, just to put it clear.

If you are using a Windows host, VirtualBox 6.1.2 comes with it's own "addons" image that you can mount on the VM as a CD-ROM. Use the gengradd.dll of it instead of vbxgradd.dll. And make the change of the config sys back to gengradd.

Valerius: Maybe the mouse driver can also be updated in your package since you are using oracle's one.

Regards

[Sean Casey]

I missed the shared clipboard feature I had been using with VMware, so seeing this post, I installed VBox Additions.   Following Oracle's instructions, shared clipboard wasn't working.   It turned out I also had to enable the shared folders feature to enable the shared clipboard.

The instructions included commenting out DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\MOUSE.SYS in config.sys; however, my ArcaOS installation was using DEVICE=C:\sys\apps\AMOUSE\AMOUSE.SYS which I commented out.

Arca Noae has instructions for installing Guest Additions, but they don't mention updating config.sys for the vboxsf.ifs driver.   I have added this to my config.sys. 

[David Graser]

Sean

What do you mean by commenting?  Are you talking about remming out the statement?

[mauro]

Hi Martin, do you mean that upgrading to virtualbox 6.1.2 is just enough to get new gengradd.dll version working, or should be then copied/replaced in someway before changing that config.sys line?
Sorry if this is a very basic question, but nothing seems to be simple for me, even if after your suggestions I can mostly apply any solution I need 

Hi, just to put it clear.

If you are using a Windows host, VirtualBox 6.1.2 comes with it's own "addons" image that you can mount on the VM as a CD-ROM. Use the gengradd.dll of it instead of vbxgradd.dll. And make the change of the config sys back to gengradd.

Valerius: Maybe the mouse driver can also be updated in your package since you are using oracle's one.

Regards

Thanks Martin, I was just renaming Valery's vboxgradd.dll in gengradd.dll and replacing that in the the DLL folder after having changed the config.sys line from set "c1=vboxgradd"  to "set c1=gengradd" , but then it does not make sense, since I'm replacing a file with itself.
And of course in my case, what happens after this make even less sense: the OS2 guest machine starts in VGA-8bit screen!

 

[Dave Yeo]

You can't simply rename DLLs and have them work as internally they have the same module name as the DLL name, eg gengradd.dll will have a module name of gengradd. It is possible to binary edit the DLL to change the name but there is still likely the problem of the imports/exports not being the same.

[Valery Sedletski]

2Dave Yeo: Yes, you're right. You need e.g., a renmodul utility to change the internal module name to VBXGRADD, as I did.

https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/system/renmodul2_0_0.zip

renmodul /r GENGRADD VBXGRADD

Then it should work. This utility can also edit the imported modules table, changing these module names.

[Sean Casey]

Sean

What do you mean by commenting?  Are you talking about remming out the statement?

Yes, remming.