Hi,
Another radeon question, bet you are all sick of them by now, eh?
I installed the drivers from ati's website, compiled the kernal module and did fglxconfig thingy, but now If i type in startx after logging in nothing happens: it goes to a black screen of evilness.
I tracked down the relevant log, and below is an extract from it, detailing the error...
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "fglrx" driver
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe0b07000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe0b07000 to 0x40015000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xb0000000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit done
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information:
(II) fglrx(0): Name: fglrx
(II) fglrx(0): Version: 3.7.0
(II) fglrx(0): Date: Dec 18 2003
(II) fglrx(0): Desc: ATI Fire GL DRM kernel module
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver.
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Build Time Information:
(II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel UTS_RELEASE: 2.4.22-10mdk
(II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel MODVERSIONS: yes
(II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel __SMP__: no
(II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel PAGE_SIZE: 0x1000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0xcfef0000
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] Mode=0x1f004e1b bridge: 0x1039/0x0746
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] AGP v1/2 disable mask 0x00000000
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] AGP v3 disable mask 0x00000000
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] enabling AGP with mode=0x1f004f1a
(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] Failed to set AGP mode!
(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe0b07000 at 0x40015000
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xb0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x08000000
The most worrying lines of this sem to be the inability to initialise AGP
((EE) fglrx(0): [agp] Failed to set AGP mode!
(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP)
It appears that the fglrx module loads up ok, but then fails later on
I've tried both the aggart external module and the kernels internal module, what shall I do now?