Re: 3d accel and agpgart

["Wackojacko" <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

From: "Elmer E. Dow" <elmeredow@earthlink.net>
To: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 4:39 AM
Subject: 3d accel and agpgart


> Greetings:
>
> I'm tryiing to get 3d acceleration working on my IBM R40 laptop running 
> Sarge
> (3.1). I'm attempting to follow the instructions at
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting.
>
> It says to do "dmesg | grep drm" and if it displays nothing, then "compile
> agpgart into your kernel or load it as a module." I can load agpgart with
> "insmod agpgart" so I know that the module exists.
>
> I tried adding Load: "agpgart" to /etc/X11/XF86config-4, but then when I 
> do a
> dmesg | grep agpgart I get:
>
> [drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0
> [drm: radeon unlock] *ERROR* Process 1847 using kernel context 0
>
> XFree86.0.log says:
>
> (II) LoadModule: "agpgart"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module agpgart
> (II) UnloadModule: "agpgart"
> (EE) Failed to load module "agpgart" (module does not exist, 0)
>
> But if I do a insmod agpgart, it says that it already exists.
>
> A little later in the instructions, it says that I need to load the 
> agpgart
> module before the radeon module. XFree86's log indicates that indeed the
> radeon module loads later.
>
> The instructions don't seem to address the above problems. Any ideas?
>
> Any input is appreciated, My knowledge and experience is limited.
>
> - Elmer E. Dow
This looks similar to the problem I had recently with X not finding my 
Nvidia module.  Try adding the agpgart module to /etc/modules so it is 
loaded on boot and will be available when X tries to load it.

I'm a relative newbie also so I may be barking up the wrong tree but it 
might be worth a shot.

Wackojacko