Seems very strange

What does lsmod | grep -i nvidia gives you ? (as root)

It should say something like
nvidia-agp 7388 1
agpgart 31016 2 nvidia-agp

If it does not then something does not got started right, but since you have done everything right I am not sure.

Since you seem to be no newbie I guess I can asume that your kernel is 2.6 (ofcoz)

Earlier hatman (post #12 in this thread wrote)
I Dunno if it matters but i had agpgart compiled into the kernel instead of as modul (default) because i read about it in another thread.

He has much the same setup like you so maybe that will help.

I am very busy and might not be able to look futher at the problem the next couple of days. And I am not sure if I can help.

C++Boar

Nothing happens when I type lsmod | grep -i nvidia

I am using the official mdk 10.0 so that's kernel 2.6.3 I believe

And I am a total newbie at linux only had mandrake on my machine for less than 48h, I had given a try at mandrake 9.1 a while back but there was no driver for my usb adsl modem back then so I had to stick to windows until now, never managed to get the ATI driver working on 9.1 as well.

"I dunno if it matters but i had agpgart compiled into the kernel instead of as modul (default) because i read about it in another thread. "

Don't have a clue how to do that never compiled anything.

AGP and fglrx is not loaded right then.

I use md 10 CE (not official). I do not know if that should make a difference on newer ATI drivers
and mandrake 10, but I will recommend that you compile your own kernel like I wrote in my first note.

That is what I have done to make it work with - and that was what Erol did...
Everything else seems to be fine ...

(But I will take a look at it if the kernel-compile-trick does not work - but as I said before. I am not sure I can help if that does not work)

C++Boar

Cheers will give it a go then, *shivers*, will let you know how it goes.

Couldn't find the dri mentionned so i got radeon-20040603-linux.i386.tar.bz2

Did an urpmi kernel to install the source

Now I get an error message at make xconfig

HOSTCC scripts/fixdep
*
* Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that the
* QT development package is correctly installed and the QTDIR
* environment variable is set to the correct location.
*
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/.tmp_qtcheck] Error 1
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2

Guess I am missing something
So I tried an urpmi QT but got

The following packages contain qt:
freqtweak
libdbus-qt-1_0
libqt3
libqt3-devel
libqt3-mysql
libqt3-odbc
libqt3-psql
libqtc1
libqtc1-devel
libqtsharp0
libqtsharp0-devel
libqtvision1
libqtvision1-devel
libsmokeqt1
libsmokeqt1-devel
libsoqt20
libsoqt20-devel
libtulip0-qt
libunixODBC2-qt
pinentry-qt
pqt-designer
qt3-common
qt3-example
qtc
qtella
qtparted
qtradio
qtsharp
unixODBC-gui-qt

Should I pick on one them or am I on the wrong tracks?

you have installed libqt3-devel ?

instead of xconfig you can use menuconfig if it still not work....

Thanks Zurg

So i did a urpmi libqt3-devel and said yes to all dependencies

Now when I do "make xconfig" I get this error message

make[1]: `scripts/fixdep' is up to date.
HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o
/bin/sh: line 1: g++: command not found
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf.o] Error 127
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2

Guess I am missing something else

How come I am missing so many files? Should I have installed Gnome as well on my first install?


make menuconfig is working but there is no character devices there.

Btw at boot the verbose says

Fatal: module fglrx not found

You need to install gcc

search for gcc in you add packages program.

C++Boar

PS Programs in linux often depends on other programs. Therefore I install almost everything when installing. That way I do not have to install it later. The only thing I did not install when installing mandrake was things that would require a 2.4 kernel.

urpmi gcc
Everything already installed

???

I don't get it, what's wrong then?

/Edit

Do you think i should reinstall Mandrake with all the package?

Ive just reinstalled mandrake 10 ....downloaded the latest nforce 2 drivers and the latest ati drivers(3.9). What do i have to do to install the ati drivers? plz help!
I have a barton 2500,ati9600pro ,nforce2 chipset.
Thanks in advence!

Zupermanz have you tried C++Boar methodon the first page of this thread or Zurg method on the second page?

C++Boar I have reinstalled Mandrake with most packages including gnome and development
Again did a urpmi kernel-source
And this time I didn't get any errors at xconfig
The make is being processed atm
I have a question about lilo.conf what am I suppose to change?

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=menu
default="windows"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda8
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="noapic nolapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hda8
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="noapic nolapic devfs=mount acpi=ht"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk
label="263-7"
root=/dev/hda8
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk.img
append="noapic nolapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hda8
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe noapic nolapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe

if you type

su
rpm -Uhv --force fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0.i386.rpm

what does it say ?

If it does not work I would start out from my first note. That worked for me.
Forget about the old files, but get the new onces. (The onces I am talking about is
probably not available now)

C++Boar

try

su
kwrite /etc/lilo.conf

You do not HAVE to change it. But the line with default should be changed, so it refers to your new-build kernel (called something like custom).

default="change_this_string_to_the_label_name_you_want_to_boot"

after that type
lilo to make that changes.

C++Boar

I get

rpm -Uhv --force fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:fglrx ########################################### [100%]
*** Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
*** WARNING ***
Tailored kernel module for fglrx not present in your system.
You must go to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod subdir
and execute './make.sh' to build a fully customed kernel module.
Afterwards go to /lib/modules/fglrx and run './make_install.sh'
in order to install the module into your kernel's module repository.
(see readme.txt for more details.)

As of now you can still run your XServer in 2D, but hardware acclerated
OpenGL will not work and 2D graphics will lack performance.

failed.
*** Error: no kernel module build environment - please consult readme.
Installed: qt3 (gcc 3.2) based control panel application
===
ATI display drivers successfully installed
please run 'fglrxconfig' now

So if I follow the instructions

cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod subdir
./make.sh
bash: ./make.sh: Permission denied

Eventhough I am logged as root

fabre - you need to install the kernel-source. Otherwise you can't build a module to the kernel.
(And you can also not recompile your kernel)

C++Boar