[arch] ATI Driver does not work

[Jan de Groot]

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 11:19 +0200, Christian Galander wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> a friend has a ATI RADEON 9600XT AGP.
> He installed Arch Linux 0.7.2 and the atifglrx Driver but he doesn´t
> work.
> 
> In the Xorg.0.log i can the this:
> ...
> (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information:
> (II) fglrx(0): Name: fglrx
> (II) fglrx(0): Version: 8.25.18
> (II) fglrx(0): Date: May 18 2006
> (II) fglrx(0): Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module
> (WW) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version does *not* match driver.
> (EE) fglrx(0): incompatible kernel module detected - HW accelerated OpenGL will not work
> (II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0x6000 at 0xb7f56000
> (WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
> (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
> (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
> (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
> (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
> (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
> ...
> 
> Why the Kernel Modul does not match the Driver Version ????
> 
> Can anyone help me?

Make sure ati-fglrx and ati-fglrx-utils versions are in sync. If you
upgraded the kernel module but didn't unload the old one, these messages
will also appear.