[SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

[n952162]

On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo
> systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it.
>
> I did that and now, when I enter "xinit", x starts and then dies with
> the message:
>
>     /MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)/
>
>     /failed to load driver: vboxvideo/
>
> Note that the vboxvideo module is loaded:
>
>     /$ lsmod | grep vbox/
>
>     */vboxvideo              40960  1/*
>     /ttm                   122880  1 vboxvideo/
>     /drm_kms_helper        217088  1 vboxvideo/
>     /drm                   552960  4 drm_kms_helper,vboxvideo,ttm/
>     /vboxnetadp             28672  0/
>     /vboxnetflt             32768  0/
>     /vboxdrv               475136  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt/
>     /vboxguest             335872  0/
>
> but it turns out there's a vboxvideo_drv.so here:
>
>     //usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so/
>
> I tried putting a symlink in /usr/lib64/dri to that, but it didn't help.
>
> Anybody have any experience here?
>
> TIA
>

In summary, the error message is no error, I was missing my window manager.