Info to know:

-HP Pavillion zv6000 series
-amd64
-ati radeon XPRESS 200M 5955
-gentoo, multiple kernels tried for this

*note: Please don't think that I am not very good at this. I did
not go looking for a laptop with an ati card, but I really
liked this one, and so far there have been no other
problems, so i don't regret getting this one. Also please
forgive me for any spelling errors.

Obviously, my problem is that cannot get dri to work. The regular driver(fglrx) works when the dri module is commented out of xorg.conf. I followed this tutorial to start of with:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers

I followed everyhting exactly with the exception of configuring my kernel and agp. My chipset does not show up, and agpgart is not a check box:

For all I know that is my problem.

I would post my xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log but i figured they would make the thread too large and scare people away.

X starts when the dri module is commented out of xorg.conf. If i leave it in, X starts to a blank screen and im locked out of my computer(also i can ssh into it, at which point i wold no what to do anyways), When dri is in, Xorg.0.log has no errors in it, and dri reportedly loads successfully, but then the log just ends right there.

I have tried this with multiple kernel: 2.6.15, 2.6.16 and a few of the odd releses in between and above. And also with multiple versions of ati-drivers.

If you would like any more info that I forgot, please reply and maybe we can trade for a solution.

PS. i ahve gotten dri to work on other computers, also I tried with slackware on this laptop(not very well), with no success.

--Ayron

The agpgart module isn't available probably because of another dependency which I haven't enabled. Although my friend has dri working without the agpgart module enabled


--ayron

Read my post on DRI (Link in my sig). Has ATI in it too

You must disable K8 IOMMU(something like that) in Processor type and features. I had this problem on Gentoo as well.

I have disbled that

Hmm, I'm assuming your zv6000 is 64 bit(mine is), in processor type and features, I think either you have to choose x86_2 or AMD64... one of them might be stopping it... I pretty much used every kernel option here:

( well it seems I can't quite post a link, just google "gentoo zv6000" and the first hit would be that page I wanted to put here.)

Minus that IOMMU thing.

Although I have followed this how-to before, I had never played around with the bios settings to make the vido use shared memory. I managed to get it so X starts, without hanging, but dri still doesn't seem to work.

--ayron