RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of version mismatch (1.17.0 -> 2.10.0)

[Moritz Naumann]

Hi,

since rebooting my ATI GPU (X1650) based system today, I can no longer start X. It worked fine until the reboot, and my last reboot was about a week ago (there was no pending kernel upgrade until today).

Xorg.0.log reports:
[EE] RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of version mismatch.
[dri] This chipset requires a kernel module version 1.17.0,
[dri] but the kernel reports a version of 2.10.0.[dri] Make sure your module is loaded prior to starting X, and
[dri] that this driver was built with support for KMS.
[dri] Aborting.

It then tells me that screens were found but none have a usable configuration. So that's kind of an overall failure. I am using ubuntu-x updates (packages by sarvatt), but hope you can still help me out...

NB: Booting into an earlier kernel version (3.0.0-16-generic) did not help.

Thanks in advance for any help.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-18.31-generic 3.0.26
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 3 02:29:25 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-21 (164 days ago)

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

x-x-v-ati in edgers built against libdrm 2.4.32 instead of 2.4.33 and it silently dropped KMS support because it requires 2.4.33, I'll get it fixed up ASAP and I'm sorry about the trouble!

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

I'm going to invalidate this bug since it's not a distro bug, but rest assured I know the problem and I'll get it fixed soon in the PPA