On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:14:47AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > Fed up with the continual need to rebuild my nvidia driver on change of kernel > version, I decided to upgrade to a radeon 9200 (gigabyte) last week. I have a radeon 7500 running with X 4.3 from unstable. Are you sure that you can't use X 4.3 from unstable? > I have installed xfree 4.3 from experimental (necessary for the radeon driver > to recognise the 9200) and preloaded agpgart. I have specified dri in > my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. I'm not sure if agpgart covers all AGP chipsets. I once had the problem that I had compiled in AGP support but had chosen the wrong one (I chose VIA instead of intel, because my motherboard is from via), and it wouldn't work. Try preloading the radeon module (even though xfree86 should load it automatically). Another thing is that you might have the wrong version of the radeon module or something like that. Also what does your config look like mine is: Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "bitmap" Load "dbe" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "record" Load "speedo" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Radeon" Driver "ati" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection > There are two warnings that are slightly worrying in /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found > > > (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available > > But other than that it appears to work fine. This is important. You need agp support in the kernel. If you can, recompile a kernel and include the correct agp chipset (intel is usually the right one). You'll also need to include the dri support for the radeon as well. These are the options to tweak: CONFIG_AGP=y # CONFIG_AGP_ALI is not set # CONFIG_AGP_ATI is not set # CONFIG_AGP_AMD is not set # CONFIG_AGP_AMD64 is not set CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y # CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA is not set # CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set # CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS is not set CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y CONFIG_DRM=y # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set # CONFIG_DRM_GAMMA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y # CONFIG_DRM_I810 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_I830 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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