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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 09:09:48
Message-Id: 1b3a90e0-1dc5-0b78-173c-6c998bcd2c5d@web.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) by n952162
1 I just found this in Xorg.0.log:
2
3 /[    37.362] (II) vboxvideo: kernel driver found, not loading./
4
5 Note that I'd previously brute force re-emerged
6 x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo (i.e., no -u, -U, etc).
7
8 Xorg.0.log attached.
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 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) Ashley Dixon <ash@××××××××××.uk>