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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 09:32:39
Message-Id: d60d1361-aab3-1fec-8147-df2fdda7b830@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) by Ashley Dixon
1 On 10/22/20 11:17 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
2 > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:10:41AM +0200, n952162 wrote:
3 >> I just found this in Xorg.0.log:
4 >>
5 >> /[    37.362] (II) vboxvideo: kernel driver found, not loading./
6 > This has been discussed before on this list in 2017. Have you tried the
7 > (admittedly counter-intuitive) solution of blacklisting vboxvideo to avoid
8 > conflicts with the kernel frame buffer? [1]
9 >
10 > $ echo 'blacklist vboxvideo' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
11 >
12 > [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/7632c76e306cc3ce8f615253c419f63a
13 >
14
15 I tried that and it didn't work.   When I looked at the reference, I saw
16 that he subsequently does a new genkernel...
17
18 I guess I could try that.  But I have at least 4 Vbox gentoo
19 installations (including this one, before I re-installed) and don't have
20 to blacklist vboxvideo and re-gen the kernel in any other case.

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