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Old 07-24-2006, 02:58 PM   #1
sygin
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Question ATI Radeon/onboard graphics Direct rendering problems


Hi People,

I have a problem getting my ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card working with my motherboard.
The motherboard is a ASRock p414gv with an intergrated Intel 82845G/GL/GE graphics card.

When I disable the onboard graphics by selecting AGP in the BIOS the linux kernel 2.6.17
crashes when it loads the module INTEL_AGP

If I compile a kernel that does not include INTEL_AGP the machine boots and I can get the
Radeon ATI 7000 card to work BUT direct rendering does not work.

From Xorg.0.log:
(WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not avaliable.
(EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module.

The AGPGART module is first on the list in my /etc/modules file.

I assume that AGPGART requires INTEL_AGP to work, but it crashes on my system.
Is there a way to load the INTEL_AGP module without it trying to initialize the
onboard graphics (which is disabled) and crashing?

I have tried loading the ATI_AGP module with no luck.

I thank you for your time.
Sygin

PS: I am planning to use a ATI 9600 on this machine, but if the 7000 does not
DRI then I dont think that the 9600 will.
 
Old 07-25-2006, 11:48 AM   #2
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Just to make sure try removing your radeon module and agpgart and reinserting to make absolutely sure they are loaded in the right order.
 
Old 07-25-2006, 02:10 PM   #3
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Hi Azriel,

Thank you for the reply, I have tried doing that to no avail. Even the Ubuntu live CD crashes on this machine unless the onboard graphics is enabled.

Thank you for the responce.
Sygin

PS: I am thinking of binnig this motherboard
 
Old 07-25-2006, 03:06 PM   #4
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Is your kernel getting into a module loading race? Mine failed continually until I entered via-agp into /etc/modules so that it would load first.

Mine looks like this:

Quote:
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a "#", and everything on the line after them are ignored.

via-agp #added to start agpgart first

ide-floppy
ide-cd

psmouse
mousedev

# USB
usbhid
If you are using Intel, you probably need a different module, but you get the idea.
 
  


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