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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) [FALSE ALARM]
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:03:01
Message-Id: ac50321b-3d46-0520-27e3-66221aa8be98@web.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) by n952162
1 On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote:
2
3 > Hello all,
4 >
5 > Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo
6 > systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it.
7 >
8 > I did that and now, when I enter "xinit", x starts and then dies with
9 > the message:
10 >
11 > /MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)/
12 >
13 > /failed to load driver: vboxvideo/
14 >
15 > Note that the vboxvideo module is loaded:
16 >
17 > /$ lsmod | grep vbox/
18 >
19 > */vboxvideo              40960  1/*
20 > /ttm                   122880  1 vboxvideo/
21 > /drm_kms_helper        217088  1 vboxvideo/
22 > /drm                   552960  4 drm_kms_helper,vboxvideo,ttm/
23 > /vboxnetadp             28672  0/
24 > /vboxnetflt             32768  0/
25 > /vboxdrv               475136  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt/
26 > /vboxguest             335872  0/
27 >
28 > but it turns out there's a vboxvideo_drv.so here:
29 >
30 > //usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so/
31 >
32 > I tried putting a symlink in /usr/lib64/dri to that, but it didn't help.
33 >
34 > Anybody have any experience here?
35 >
36 > TIA
37 >
38
39 I just discovered that on another vbox/gentoo installation I have, which
40 works fine, I also get these exact messages!
41
42 MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)
43
44 I found the tip here:
45
46 https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=84652
47
48 I still can't X to start, but now understand it's a completely different
49 issue!