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First, thanks to Pat and his team for their hard work.
Next, I have an Ati Radeon Xpress 200M on my laptop, and since Ati droped support for it, I depend on the radeon module from the kernel. Since todays upgrade, I am unable to start X (there are errors with "modprobe radeon"). Has anyone else experienced this problems?
This is the error I get:
Code:
WARNING: Error inserting i2c_algo_bit (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting agpgart (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting drm (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting drm_kms_helper (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_kms_helper.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting ttm (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm.ko): Invalid module format
FATAL: Error inserting radeon (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko): Invalid module format
It would be useful to know which distro you are using, or if it is a custom distro like (LFS), and did you compile the kernel or just download it from your distro repos?
Strange... I only saw this happens when loading a module compiled against another kernel version. Look if you are booting from 2.6.33 (uname -r). Check if, for some distraction, you installed the modules for the right architecture (32 or 64bit).
Well I can assure you that the radeon driver loads and works fine in 2.6.33 as I'm using that currently on two workstations. Are you using a kernel you built yourself or a packaged one (I'm not sure what -current currently uses as I'm still on 13.0)? Does anything else show up in 'dmesg'?
Today's upgrade totally trashed the radeon/drm/ttm etc... kernel modules.
Using the -smp kernel image + modules from -current gives the following errors (other modules loads fine, except radeon and its dependencies)
# modprobe drm
FATAL: Error inserting drm (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko): Invalid module format
# modprobe radeon
WARNING: Error inserting i2c_algo_bit (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting agpgart (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting drm (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting drm_kms_helper (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_kms_helper.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting ttm (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm.ko): Invalid module format
FATAL: Error inserting radeon (/lib/modules/2.6.33-smp/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko): Invalid module format
The installed and relevant packages versions are:
kernel-firmware-2.6.33-noarch-1
kernel-headers-2.6.33_smp-x86-1
kernel-huge-smp-2.6.33_smp-i686-1
kernel-modules-smp-2.6.33_smp-i686-1
kernel-source-2.6.33_smp-noarch-1
module-init-tools-3.11.1-i486-1
rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.33
upgradepkg --install-new --reinstall /{path to your local slackware mirror}/slackware64/a/kernel-modules-2.6.33*.t?z should do the trick.
I have the same issue with intel driver. Perhaps someone knows the solution?
Well, I can say just +1. My workstation (dell optiplex 760) has intel video using intel 915 video module and it fails with the same "Invalid module format" warnings. There are warnings about failures for other modules, but I'm not sure about them - one was for button.ko. Later I can provide more information.
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