[gentoo-user] X11 fails to start up after elogind emerge

Starting with: <2020-04-14 Desktop profile switching USE default to elogind> I've updated my USE with: elogind -consolekit -systemd Did an "emerge --update --changed-use @world", rebooted,

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install speechless

Apparently something is active in chroot in alsa I didn't add to the kernel in make menuconfig since speaker-test works in chroot but not after boot. I have one of those snd_ac97 cards for now. Next computer no intel sound card. On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, John Covici wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020

[SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote: Hello all, Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it. I did that and now, when I enter "xinit", x starts and then dies with the message: /MESA-LOADER: failed to open

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install speechless

On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 05:09:53 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, John Covici wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 23:18:14 > > From: John Covici > > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) [FALSE ALARM]

On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote: Hello all, Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it. I did that and now, when I enter "xinit", x starts and then dies with the message: /MESA-LOADER: failed to open

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

I see, with uname -r, however, that this is the first gentoo system I have that's a version 5 kernel: 5.4.66-gentoo-x86_64 On 10/22/20 11:33 AM, n952162 wrote: On 10/22/20 11:17 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:10:41AM +0200, n952162 wrote: I just found this in Xorg.0.log:

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

I mean, I looked in /proc/config and there's various vbox-specific module spec.s, which are all "m" in this case. On 10/22/20 11:38 AM, n952162 wrote: Dumb question: do I (perhaps newly?) need to have any special kernel parameters to be able to run virtualbox? On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

Dumb question: do I (perhaps newly?) need to have any special kernel parameters to be able to run virtualbox? On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote: Hello all, Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it. I did that

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

On 10/22/20 11:17 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:10:41AM +0200, n952162 wrote: I just found this in Xorg.0.log: /[    37.362] (II) vboxvideo: kernel driver found, not loading./ This has been discussed before on this list in 2017. Have you tried the (admittedly

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

/var/log/syslog has these vbox-relevant messages: Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.351915] vboxdrv: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.352252] vboxdrv: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel Oct 22

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:10:41AM +0200, n952162 wrote: > I just found this in Xorg.0.log: > > /[    37.362] (II) vboxvideo: kernel driver found, not loading./ This has been discussed before on this list in 2017. Have you tried the (admittedly counter-intuitive) solution of

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install speechless

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, John Covici wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 23:18:14 > From: John Covici > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install speechless > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:08:51 -0400, > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

I just found this in Xorg.0.log: /[    37.362] (II) vboxvideo: kernel driver found, not loading./ Note that I'd previously brute force re-emerged x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo (i.e., no -u, -U, etc). Xorg.0.log attached. On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote: Hello all, Everybody told me

[gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

Hello all, Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it. I did that and now, when I enter "xinit", x starts and then dies with the message: /MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)/