Bug 45942

Summary: X server fails to start with xorg-x11-drv-ati driver
Product: xorg Reporter: Chris Rankin <rankincj>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: git   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Xorg.0.log file showing failure. none

Description Chris Rankin 2012-02-11 13:12:11 UTC
Created attachment 56903 [details]
Xorg.0.log file showing failure.

I upgraded my radeon_drv.so driver, but then the X server failed to start.

[   549.484] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[   549.484] drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK)
[   549.484] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:02:00.0
[   549.484] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[   549.484] drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK)
[   549.484] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 10
[   549.484] drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:02:00.0
[   549.484] (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.

The full file is attached.
Comment 1 Chris Rankin 2012-02-11 13:15:43 UTC
For reference, the git driver from 1st February works OK. My kernel is vanilla 3.2.5.
Comment 2 Alex Deucher 2012-02-12 10:05:04 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 45900 ***

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