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On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote: |
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> Hello all, |
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> Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo |
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> systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it. |
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> I did that and now, when I enter "xinit", x starts and then dies with |
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> the message: |
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> /MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)/ |
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> /failed to load driver: vboxvideo/ |
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> Note that the vboxvideo module is loaded: |
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> /$ lsmod | grep vbox/ |
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> */vboxvideo 40960 1/* |
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> /ttm 122880 1 vboxvideo/ |
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> /drm_kms_helper 217088 1 vboxvideo/ |
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> /drm 552960 4 drm_kms_helper,vboxvideo,ttm/ |
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> /vboxnetadp 28672 0/ |
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> /vboxnetflt 32768 0/ |
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> /vboxdrv 475136 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt/ |
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> /vboxguest 335872 0/ |
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> but it turns out there's a vboxvideo_drv.so here: |
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> //usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so/ |
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> I tried putting a symlink in /usr/lib64/dri to that, but it didn't help. |
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> Anybody have any experience here? |
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> TIA |
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I just discovered that on another vbox/gentoo installation I have, which |
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works fine, I also get these exact messages! |
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MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) |
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I found the tip here: |
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https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=84652 |
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I still can't X to start, but now understand it's a completely different |
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issue! |