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Old 05-27-2004, 08:17 PM   #1
shoka
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(Radeon)video crash when enabling 3D hardware accl


whenever I enable 3D hardware accl, I get a blank screen and i need to restart and run XFdrake to disable it before I can login to X.
followed instructions on first post of thisthread

now, when I want to run the command /sbin/insmod agpgart it says "agpgrat: no such file or directory" in fglrxconfig option.

I've XFree4.3, kernel 2.6 on mandrake 10 CE. Radeon 9100.
Moreover, on my XF86Config-4 there's no "Load "dri"" line in it, but even when I put it there, it still didnt fix my problem.

I even read the HowTo on rage3d.com but there are still somewhere that I got stucked at.

Quote:
3.3 GART patch installation

This step has to be done by everybody, in order to enable AGP Gart support in the kernel.

oh and I forgot to mention, when I type some commad ( i forgot ) it says OpenGL: mesa, which means Im still using mesa driver? but I remember to put "--force" when I install the ati driver

* cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.20 (change this to your kernel path)
* patch -p1 < linux-2.4.20-agpgart.diff (again, change to appropriate kernel)
I got the error "file not found"
my directory is /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-4mdk, i wonder if this is the one i need.
please let me know what other information you need to know to solve my problem.

Last edited by shoka; 05-27-2004 at 08:19 PM.
 
Old 05-27-2004, 08:52 PM   #2
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It sounds like you have it configured to use the external agpgart module. If that's the case, you need to make sure it exists. Try
Code:
modprobe -l | grep agpgart
. Also make sure your kernel has support built for your particular chipset.
 
Old 05-28-2004, 01:27 AM   #3
shoka
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modprobe -l | grep agpgart
output: /lib/modules/2.6.3-4mdk/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.ko.gz

Thanks for mentioning about the chipset, now, I think its the problem of it because I have a SiS 648FX.

After searching in google for a while I found that i need to have the following section in agpgart_be.c, which I already have except the line "0x0648". Adding the line dont seem to fix the problem.
{
0x0648,
PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI,
SIS_GENERIC,
"SiS",
"645dx",
}

now, I also find that there are is unofficial patch for my chipset like the one in here . But I just dont know what to do with the codes. I have also searched this forum for a patch for my chipset yet I dont think I found anything yet.
 
  


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