[Tuxaloosa] VBox on slackware

[E Hanson]

Robby Workman wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:21:01 -0600
> E Hanson <leprkhn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> i figured it out and got it built.
>> i built the iasl compiler, moved it to /usr/share and linked it
>> to /usr/bin. that allowed me to build virtualbox.
>> then i realized that ./somename.SlackPackage isn't the end of the 
>> process and went and looked in my /tmp folder where there was a .tgz
>> of virtualbox AND the acpica that i built.
>> installpkg took care of them and i ready to go.
>>     
>
>
> Glad you got all that figured out -- sorry I didn't reply earlier, as I
> could have saved you a hell of a lot of trouble, but the holidays had
> me turned every which way but loose :/
>   
no worries... asked-for answers never get the results that searched-for 
answers do, and i prefer my learning to turn up more questions along the 
way. keeps me busy.
> Our (SlackBuilds.org) virtualbox maintainer is holding off on the new
> 2.1.0 updates for reasons that I can't remember at the moment, but in
> the meantime, I've installed the official binaries from virtualbox.org,
> and they work as expected.  One very nice feature addition to the new
> 2.1.0 builds is host-based networking without any manual configuration
> of bridging and such.  It's always nice to deprecate one of my howto
> documents :)
>   
i've had to put vbox on hold, but i'll keep the bin release in mind. did 
you use an rpm?
i got a 22' lcd and i'm having problems getting xorg to output 1680x1050 
res.
> -RW
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