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Old 09-09-2004, 08:36 PM   #1
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Question ATI AGP card and Xorg


I'm trying to configure an ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP video card with Xorg. No matter which config option I choose ('Xorg -configure', 'xorgcfg -textmode', xorgconfig), when I test the generated .conf file, the screen locks up with a bunch of colors and horizontal lines (green on top, blue everywhere else). The mouse cursor moves (at least that works), but none of the Ctrl+Alt key combos work, and I can't escape the X session or access another virtual console. The "Device" section generated from 'Xorg -configure' is:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000]"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"

That looks okay to me, but what do I know? Here's any related output I can think of from 'pciconf -lv':
agp0@pci0:0:0: class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x01e010de rev=0xa2
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
device = 'nForce2 AGP Controller'
class = bridge
subclass = HOST-PCI
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none9@pci3:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x20021002 chip=0x49661002 rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc.'
device = 'RV250 Radeon 9000/9000 Pro'
class = display
subclass = VGA
none10@pci3:0:1: class=0x038000 card=0x20031002 chip=0x496e1002
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc.'
device = 'RV250 Radeon 9000/9000 Pro - Secondary'
class = display

I thought it might be an AGP/kernel issue, but when I try 'kldload agp' I get back "File exists", and when I do 'kldstat -n agp' I get "No such file".
 
Old 09-09-2004, 09:07 PM   #2
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You don't want to kldload agp drivers if your trying to install ATI's AGP driver. You want to kldunload agp.
 
Old 09-10-2004, 03:53 PM   #3
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Thanks, but that doesn't seem to work either:
# kldunload agp
kldunload: can't unload agp; no such file or directory
# kldunload -n agp
kldunload: can't unload agp; no such file or directory
 
  


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