Re: Radeon fglrx and Nforce 2 agp and direct rendering problem

[Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RoboticGolem wrote:
> I dont know if it makes you feel any better, but whenever I use dri
> and do anything that uses hardware scaling, it locks up solid.  Have
> to hit the switch to get it going again.
>
> ATI Radeon (As my Gforce wasnt compatable with this mb)
> MPX motherboard, AMD Agp chipset...  768 I think...  *shrug*
>
> No hardware accel for me yet.
>
> =(
>
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 09:32:10 -0700 (PDT), Hesty P <hestyp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I hope this is the right place to ask for help. I've
> > got my new Radeon 9600 Pro and installed fglrx-3.11.1
> > driver for it. To my dismay, somehow the DRI doesn
> > work:
> >
> > direct rendering: No
> >    GLX_ATI_render_texture
> > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> >
> > So I checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what's wrong:
> >
> > (II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0xe5000000
> > (EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error
> > "xf86_ENOMEM"
> > (EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP
> > (II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for
> > kernel
> > (II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA
> > 0x22a8f000 at 0xf6f45000
> > (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):
> > ********************************************* *
> > (II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xc0000000 FBMappedSize:
> > 0x08000000
> >
> > So it says no AGP? Then I tried:
> >
> > [root@localhost root]# modprobe agpgart
> > FATAL: Module agpgart not found.
> >
> > Okay, so I remember I'm using NForce2 Mobo and I
> > googled around. I found some mention of nvidia-agp
> > module. I tried that:
> >
> > [root@localhost root]# modprobe nvidia-agp
> > FATAL: Module nvidia_agp not found.
> >
> > Where can I find this module? I've tried both internal
> > and external AGP option with fglrx. Both gives no DRI.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hesty

I gave up on ATI after a month of fighting.  To bad the NVidia didn't 
work.  Has ATI provided DRI support for the 9600.  They didn't have it 
in January when I gave up.  I purchased a NVida and had it running 
with full support within minutes of closing the case.

I think you have to build the module from the ATI drivers.  Look at 
the readme files.

--
Robin Laing