On Jun 26, 2004 at 15:20, gary c lucas in a soothing rage wrote: >Been trying to get 3d acceleration going on my newly installed FC2 >system. > >Hardware: > Asus a7n8x vm (Nvidia nforce 2 chipset) > Sapphire Radeon 9600 atlantis > >I've read multiple how-to's and configuration guides (rage3d, ATI linux >how to) and I've hit a major stumbling block that I can't seem to get >over. > >I have downloaded and installed: >fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0.i386.rpm >and I've recompiled a 2.6.4 kernel several times with various options. >- with xfree dri support, agpgart as a module, agpgart built in, with >the nforce2 support built in etc. I have a Radeon 9200 and use the stock updated FC2 kernel. I would suggest you use that. [...] >drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1 >drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) >drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) >drmOpenDevice: Open failed [...] >drmOpenDevice: minor is 14 >drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14 >drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) >drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) >drmOpenDevice: Open failed >(II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed >(EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed! >(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): ********************************************* * Compile the fglrx rpm using the kernel-2.6.6-1.435 kernel. Post the results here when you are done. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 "Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows." -- Robert G. Ingersoll 08:26:02 up 3 days, 15:06, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00