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Bug 437590

Summary: media-libs/mesa-9.0_pre20120918: libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau with a ATI graphic controller
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Juergen Rose <rose>
Component: [OLD] LibraryAssignee: Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: EoD
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Juergen Rose 2012-10-08 08:26:45 UTC
If I login libGL complains about:
root@caiman:/root(1)# libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details.
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details.
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details.

I suppose, that I have nothing installed which is related to nouveau:

root@caiman:/root(8)# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 4)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 40)
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 42)
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:15.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB700/SB800/SB900 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:16.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:16.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4290]
01:05.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series]
02:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB361 AHCI/IDE (rev 02)
03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB361 AHCI/IDE (rev 02)
04:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev c0)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)

root@caiman:/root(9)# qlist -Iv nouveau
root@caiman:/root(10)# eix nouveau
* x11-base/nouveau-drm
     Available versions:  (~)20100520 (~)20100811 (~)20101107 (~)20110526 (~)20110602 (~)20110801 (~)20110820 (~)20111101 (~)20120322 (~)20120605 (~)20120728 (~)99999999[1] {{KERNEL="linux"}}
     Homepage:            http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
     Description:         Nouveau DRM Kernel Modules for X11

* x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau
     Available versions:  0.0.16_pre20111109 (~)0.0.16_pre20120305 0.0.16_pre20120322 (~)0.0.16_pre20120508 (~)1.0.1 (~)1.0.2 [M](~)9999[1]
     Homepage:            http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
     Description:         Accelerated Open Source driver for nVidia cards

[1] "x11" /var/lib/layman/x11

Found 2 matches.
root@caiman:/root(11)# dmesg | grep -i nouveau
root@caiman:/root(12)# grep -i nouveau /var/log/messages
root@caiman:/root(13)# ll /usr/lib/libGL*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 Aug 24 10:23 /usr/lib/libGLEWmx.so -> libGLEWmx.so.1.9.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 Aug 24 10:23 /usr/lib/libGLEWmx.so.1.9 -> libGLEWmx.so.1.9.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 395160 Aug 24 10:23 /usr/lib/libGLEWmx.so.1.9.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Aug 24 10:23 /usr/lib/libGLEW.so -> libGLEW.so.1.9.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Aug 24 10:23 /usr/lib/libGLEW.so.1.9 -> libGLEW.so.1.9.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 452512 Aug 24 10:23 /usr/lib/libGLEW.so.1.9.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     34 Sep 21 04:24 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     34 Sep 21 04:24 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 Sep 21 04:15 /usr/lib/libGLU.so -> libGLU.so.1.3.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 Sep 21 04:15 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 535136 Sep 21 04:15 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1.3.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 May 29 07:52 /usr/lib/libGLw.so -> libGLw.so.1.0.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 May 29 07:52 /usr/lib/libGLw.so.1 -> libGLw.so.1.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  26592 May 29 07:52 /usr/lib/libGLw.so.1.0.0*
root@caiman:/root(14)# qfile -v libGL.so.1.2.0
media-libs/mesa-9.0_pre20120918 (/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0)
Comment 1 EoD 2012-10-24 20:57:35 UTC
I have mesa 9.0 installed with only an AMD graphics controller and there are no problems.
Have you tried upgrading?
Comment 2 Matt Turner gentoo-dev 2015-02-21 18:57:16 UTC
I'm not sure what the bug is here, but if it still occurs please report it upstream.