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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 09:59:54
Message-Id: 60fd974c-f1dc-0637-35c2-f52bec5afade@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) by n952162
1 I see, with uname -r, however, that this is the first gentoo system I
2 have that's a version 5 kernel:
3
4 5.4.66-gentoo-x86_64
5
6
7 On 10/22/20 11:33 AM, n952162 wrote:
8 > On 10/22/20 11:17 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
9 >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:10:41AM +0200, n952162 wrote:
10 >>> I just found this in Xorg.0.log:
11 >>>
12 >>> /[    37.362] (II) vboxvideo: kernel driver found, not loading./
13 >> This has been discussed before on  this  list  in  2017.   Have you 
14 >> tried  the
15 >> (admittedly counter-intuitive)  solution  of  blacklisting vboxvideo 
16 >> to  avoid
17 >> conflicts with the kernel frame buffer? [1]
18 >>
19 >>          $ echo 'blacklist vboxvideo' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
20 >>
21 >> [1]
22 >> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/7632c76e306cc3ce8f615253c419f63a
23 >>
24 >
25 > I tried that and it didn't work.   When I looked at the reference, I saw
26 > that he subsequently does a new genkernel...
27 >
28 > I guess I could try that.  But I have at least 4 Vbox gentoo
29 > installations (including this one, before I re-installed) and don't have
30 > to blacklist vboxvideo and re-gen the kernel in any other case.
31 >
32 >