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Re: Ati Radon 8500



On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, BacheK wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Anyone who've made ati radeon8500 working with 3d support ? 
> 
> I've been trying to install the drivers from atitech but there seem to be alot of conflicts.
> 
> http://dri.sourceforge.net/ seem to support the radeon so I downloaded and installed it. But when I did start x I got a msg that agp wasn't found. 
> agpgart is included in my kernel(2.4.19) 
> 
> When I do dmesg | grep agp 
> I get msg that tells my agp chipset is unsupported.
> then I did lspci to findout which chipset I got, it's "AMD760 agp chipset" which I don't think 2.4.19 has support to.
> 
> How do I know which kernel I shall compile that support amd760 agp chipset ? 
> 
> Cheers
> /bkw

Perhabs you have to enable CONFIG_AGP_AMD (character devices), but I am
not sure.

Burkhard



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