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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 09:37:27
Message-Id: b51de844-a537-901e-787d-9bc456007ee6@web.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) by n952162
1 Dumb question: do I (perhaps newly?) need to have any special kernel
2 parameters to be able to run virtualbox?
3
4
5 On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote:
6 >
7 > Hello all,
8 >
9 > Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo
10 > systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it.
11 >
12 > I did that and now, when I enter "xinit", x starts and then dies with
13 > the message:
14 >
15 > /MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)/
16 >
17 > /failed to load driver: vboxvideo/
18 >
19 > Note that the vboxvideo module is loaded:
20 >
21 > /$ lsmod | grep vbox/
22 >
23 > */vboxvideo              40960  1/*
24 > /ttm                   122880  1 vboxvideo/
25 > /drm_kms_helper        217088  1 vboxvideo/
26 > /drm                   552960  4 drm_kms_helper,vboxvideo,ttm/
27 > /vboxnetadp             28672  0/
28 > /vboxnetflt             32768  0/
29 > /vboxdrv               475136  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt/
30 > /vboxguest             335872  0/
31 >
32 > but it turns out there's a vboxvideo_drv.so here:
33 >
34 > //usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so/
35 >
36 > I tried putting a symlink in /usr/lib64/dri to that, but it didn't help.
37 >
38 > Anybody have any experience here?
39 >
40 > TIA
41 >

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