[SOLVED] Virtualbox inverted/negative colors...

I'm not exactly new to Arch or linux in general, but I wasn't sure where else to post this. I'm having a really odd issue.
If I load up my Windows XP virtual machine in virtualbox, when the virtual machine window has focus -- and ONLY when it has focus, the entire screen goes to negative/inverted colors. I'm not talking about just the Windows XP window itselt, but the entire screen. I can click off the virtual machine, giving focus to any other window and the colors go back to normal. Focus the virtual machine and BAM, inverted.
Oddly enough, this only happens when I'm not using compiz-fusion. That is, it happens only when nautilus is my window manager. If I select compiz as my window manager, the problem no longer exists. Here's a photo for reference (I cannot take a screenshot, because that steals focus and then the screen corrects itself.
BTW: this happens with both the latest OSE and BIN versions of VirtualBox.
If it helps, I'm running Arch on a Thinkpad T42 with a mobility radeon 9600 using no xorg.config file and the open source ati driver. I have the guest additions installed in the XP virtualmachine.
Virtual machine running, unfocussed.
Virtual machine focussed... screen inverted.
Last edited by krazyshane (2009-08-06 16:39:36)

I too am having this issue,
running either xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-ati-git makes no difference ... (i did a git update of ati today, didn't fix it)
launching vbox with; env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 VirtualBox causes the colour inversion
launching without causes it to stuff up all other programs trying to use xv as a video output ...
now I can't watch vids :'(
eidt; I'm using openbox as my wm, & xfce4 panel
Last edited by bond (2009-08-02 10:49:25)

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