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

[John J. Foster]

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
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