I've been puzzling over an issue that wasn't ultra-priority, but has become an annoyance. I've referred before to an issue with the ATI driver from Livna, where I couldn't figure out a way of telling whether it was active or not. There's supposed to be a point in the boot up where there's a probe for the fglrx driver, and depending on whether its current or not, the driver gets loaded. That query works perfectly on one of my FC4 machines and never appears on another. In reading the doc pages for fglrx last night, I discover that the kernel module agpgart does not appear on my system - i.e. [root@viewridgeproductions2 cj]# lspci | grep AGP 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) [root@viewridgeproductions2 cj]# ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/char/agp ls: /lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1637_FC4/kernel/drivers/char/agp: No such file or directory I'm not sure where to go with this. Is this kernel-module something I have to install separately? I've just ssh'ed into my machine at work, the one I think is loading the ATI Livna driver properly, and conducting the query properly at boot, and it doesn't have the driver/directory listed in the above command, either! (I say that I think it's loading properly, because the query appears, the answer is positive, and the message indicates success) So, now I'm not sure where to proceed. Let me add that I've been addtitionally puzzled by the behavior of the GUI window for the ATI-fglrx settings - on this machine I'm typing on, now, that window is active. Even though I'm running the newest kernel, for which no updated Livna component is yet available, if I move the color sliders back and forth, it definitely controls my screen colors. I'd thought previously that this would be a test of whether the Livna ATI driver was loaded or not, but, this is obviously not the case. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
