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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:39:00
Message-Id: 87695ef9-02c3-dbe1-b72e-3e60ca9056ce@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) by n952162
1 I mean, I looked in /proc/config and there's various vbox-specific
2 module spec.s, which are all "m" in this case.
3
4
5 On 10/22/20 11:38 AM, n952162 wrote:
6 >
7 > Dumb question: do I (perhaps newly?) need to have any special kernel
8 > parameters to be able to run virtualbox?
9 >
10 >
11 > On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote:
12 >>
13 >> Hello all,
14 >>
15 >> Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo
16 >> systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it.
17 >>
18 >> I did that and now, when I enter "xinit", x starts and then dies with
19 >> the message:
20 >>
21 >> /MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)/
22 >>
23 >> /failed to load driver: vboxvideo/
24 >>
25 >> Note that the vboxvideo module is loaded:
26 >>
27 >> /$ lsmod | grep vbox/
28 >>
29 >> */vboxvideo              40960  1/*
30 >> /ttm                   122880  1 vboxvideo/
31 >> /drm_kms_helper        217088  1 vboxvideo/
32 >> /drm                   552960  4 drm_kms_helper,vboxvideo,ttm/
33 >> /vboxnetadp             28672  0/
34 >> /vboxnetflt             32768  0/
35 >> /vboxdrv               475136  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt/
36 >> /vboxguest             335872  0/
37 >>
38 >> but it turns out there's a vboxvideo_drv.so here:
39 >>
40 >> //usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so/
41 >>
42 >> I tried putting a symlink in /usr/lib64/dri to that, but it didn't help.
43 >>
44 >> Anybody have any experience here?
45 >>
46 >> TIA
47 >>