On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 17:38:27 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon > Version: 6.14.4-2 > Severity: serious > > Hi, > > I upgraded a working Lenovo T400 machine with an integrated intel+radeon > setup as the one described by the submitter of bug report #585911 - to > wheezy, including its 3.2 kernel, and the kernel package complained about > missing radeon firmware. Running startx despite it made the machine display > unreadable. :( Could that have been avoided? > Probably.
> 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. Cheers, Julien
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