[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Bug#650699: fglrx-driver: the fglrxdrm.a version = 8.91.4, expected 8.88.7

[Michael Gilbert]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 12:20 AM, lina wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Michael Gilbert
> <michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:11 AM, lina wrote:
>>> [   281.657] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx
>>> [   281.692] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0 at 1:
>>> 0:1) found
>>> [   281.703] (**) fglrx(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
>>> [   281.780] (--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "AMD Radeon 6600M and 6700M Series" (Chipse
>>> t = 0x6741)
>>> [   281.780] (--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x106b, PciSubDevice = 0x00e2)
>>> [   281.780] (--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at 0x90000000
>>> [   281.780] (--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xb0800000
>>> [   281.780] (--) fglrx(0): I/O port at 0x00002000
>>> [   282.007] (--) fglrx(0): Video RAM: 1048576 kByte, Type: GDDR5
>>> [   282.007] (--) fglrx(0): Using per-process page tables (PPPT) as GART.
>>> [   282.007] (WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is su
>>> pported
>>> [   282.430] (**) fglrx(0): Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900"
>>> [   282.430] (**) fglrx(0): Option "Position" "0 0"
>>> [   282.430] (**) fglrx(0): Option "Disable" "false"
>>> [   282.430] (**) fglrx(0): Option "Rotate" "normal"
>>> [   282.430] (**) fglrx(0): Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
>>> [   282.444] (EE) fglrx(0): (fglrxdrm.a version = 8.91.4, expected 8.88.7). Disa
>>> bling DRI.
>>> [   282.444] (WW) fglrx(0): ****************************************************
>>> *******
>>> [   282.444] (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed
>>>      *
>>> [   282.444] (WW) fglrx(0): * kernel module (fglrx.ko) may be missing or incompa
>>> tible *
>>> [   282.444] (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D and 3D acceleration disabled
>>>      *
>>> [   282.444] (WW) fglrx(0): ****************************************************
>>> *******
>>
>> This is saying the the dkms package isn't working right.  And
>> fglrxdrm.a should not be on your system.  If you're using the debian
>
> when I tried to
> locate fglrxdrm
>
> it only showed me
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.so
>
> There is no lib called fglrxdrm.a

It's nigh impossible to get the above error about fglrxdrm.a if that
file isn't on your system.  Are you absolutely sure that's your latest
xorg log file?  It should be /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

Best wishes,
Mike