Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start X after a few months of updates

[John J. Foster]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:03:23PM -0500, deface wrote:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers#Module_Requirement_Mismatch
>
> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:52 -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My system had been happily chugging along with X and KDE running for a
> > few months nonstop. Every Saturday I'd run an update world. But, I never
> > restarted X and obviously never rebooted. Yesterday we had a 3 hour
> > power outage that my UPS couldn't keep up with, and when I finally got
> > power back, X won't start. I _think_ this is the relevant portion of
> > /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
> >
> >
> > (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
> >         compiled for 7.1.0, module version = 8.28.8
> >         Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> >         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
> > [R200Setup] X version mismatch - detected X.org 7.2.0.0, required X.org 7.1.0.0
> > (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
> > (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
> > (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
> >
> >
> > Can anyone help me, as I have know idea what to do?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > festus

deface - thanks, but I'd already read that section after finding it via
scroogle. That particular advice didn't work for me. However, as
long as I had that page open, I saw a bit about making the following
change in xorg.conf.

from ---
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
EndSection

to ---
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
EndSection

...and this worked. So thanks for getting me to reread that page!!!

festus
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