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Actually here's a little X history for you... When XF86 first went from version 3 to 4 alot of people who were testing with XF86 4 but used ver3 for primetime would keep their XF86 config for version 4 as XF86Config-4. So when you start XF86 it first looks for an XF86Config-4 file... if it doesn't find it then it looks for XF86Config. so that has nothing to do with it. your XF86config 'dri' section looks correct and after chmod'ng card0 you should've been alright.

I built my XF86 4.3 from source on an LFS system, compiled the driver, did the fglrxconfig, modprobed the fglrx driver and told it to use its own agpgart modules... then started x... no problems.

my card0 comes up as crw-rw-rw-

did you replace the libGL with the one that came with the fglrx driver?

I don't know what it is your missing... maybe you'd have better luck posting to the dri forum over at sourceforge (dri.sourceforge.net). its definately a permissions problem but I'm not sure where its coming from.

uhm, nukkel, I don't think thats the right solution for me seeing that you have a different generation card, a very weird version of xfree (from cvs), and a different distro (even though that shouldnt really matter)...so i say, jpbarto, when can we/I expect those drivers?:D :Pengy:

Hold on, I just found that the driver can be downloaded seperately for XFree86. It's here: http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh
BTW I have XFree86 4.3.0 now, from downloaded binaries, makes no difference.
Why not give it a try, this driver claims to be for all Radeons all the same

i checked that out, unpacked it (does it matter which directory i unzip it into?) and got this error:

Code:

/lib/modules/2.4.20-9/build/include/linux/highmem.h:20: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic

In file included from gamma_drv.c:54:

drm_vm.h: In function `gamma_mmap':

drm_vm.h:462: warning: passing arg 1 of `remap_page_range_R2baf18f2' makes pointer from integer without a cast

drm_vm.h:462: incompatible type for argument 4 of `remap_page_range_R2baf18f2'

drm_vm.h:462: too few arguments to function `remap_page_range_R2baf18f2'

make: *** [gamma_drv.o] Error 1

Phew, that looks bad... I'm not that much of a programmer myself so this looks as weird to me as it does to you...
Don't ATI have drivers for their more expensive cards themselves? Maybe that'll get you further

I'm sorry but I really wouldn't know how to solve this :scratch:

P.S. unpacking a .tar.gz can always be done in any temporary directory.

the ati drivers for all the highend cards only support XF 4.2.0...

come to think of it, is it reasonable to try and DOWNGRADE X? Or are there MAJOR bugfixes in 4.3 that arent worth sacrificing for opengl and direct rendering?

like i said in the other thread, would it reasonable for you to email me the file?

Martinman, I'm sorry if you've sent me emails in the last couple of days. Some buddies of mine were visiting from grad school over the weekend so I didn't have too much computer time.
If I remember correctly though you want to run a radeon on a KT400 chipset mobo with XF 4.3 right?
here's the file you need:
http://www.schneider-digital.de/down...linux_X4.3.zip

the driver I have available is a modded copy of the one linked above. I added support for the P4X400 chipset. support for the KT400 is already available in this driver (at least judging from the looks of the code). Give it a try and let me know (either through here or email) if you have problems. And if after installing it says it won't support your KT400 I'll further mod the one I have available to add the support.

download from the link above and let me know how it goes.

laters,
jbarto

P.S. I would like to have you host the mod'd drivers if you would please I'll send them to you some time this week; at least until the site linked above provides the updated driver on their site.

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