On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:00:46PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > In any case, I rebooted using SysRq+S+U+B (I think, at least - couldn't see > > anything) and installed firmware-linux-nonfree, rebooted once again for good > > measure, and tried startx again, and now it just aborts X saying: > > > > [ 137.038] (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a > > version mismatch. > > [dri] This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0, > > [dri] but the kernel reports a version of 2.12.0. > > [dri] Make sure your module is loaded prior to starting X, and > > [dri] that this driver was built with support for KMS. > > [dri] Aborting. > > > Means your radeon kernel module is not being properly loaded by udev. > You need to figure out why.
There's nothing strange about it, at least none that I can see. You can see in the attached dmesg output that it worked fine. The X output says it saw a kernel module, but it didn't like the version. The next time it starts, it sees something it likes. This message: [ 135.892] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. is produced by: ret = drmCheckModesettingSupported(busIdString); I googled that and found: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2009-December/013185.html that is: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25607 -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
