I've been running ati's proprietary drivers for my mobility radeon 9600 on my amd64 laptop for a few months now with no problems, but all of sudden they stopped working: X crashes upon load. I found the error msg that seems to be the cause of the crash in my Xorg.0.log: Code: (II) LoadModule: "fglrx" (II) Loading /usr/lib64/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.o (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc." compiled for 6.8.0, module version = 8.22.5 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 [R200Setup] X version mismatch - detected X.org 7.0.-1.15, required X.org 6.8.0.0 (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx" (II) Unloading /usr/lib64/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.o (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module requirement mismatch, 0) Code: grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so (EE) Failed to load module "GLcore" (loader failed, 7) (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module requirement mismatch, 0) (EE) No drivers available. I have v6.8.99.15-r4 installed of xorg-x11. fglrx has worked with this version before.
here is the same: X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux mir 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 #14 SMP Wed Aug 23 20:45:07 EEST 2006 x86_64 Build Date: 31 August 2006 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Aug 31 12:56:25 2006 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (EE) module ABI major version (0) doesn't match the server's version (1) (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module requirement mismatch, 0) (EE) No drivers available. * x11-base/xorg-x11 Installed: 7.0-r1 * x11-drivers/ati-drivers Installed: 8.27.10-r1
some advices can be found here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers at least this advice helped me: echo ">=x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.0" >> /etc/portage/package.mask emerge xorg-server
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