Okay, I am having the same problem as this person is having. Anyone have any ideas at all? I am pretty lost, I can run XFree86 using the stock radeon driver but I have no acceleration, any help would be greatly appreciated.

i'm having the same problem as well.. does anyone know anything?

Okay, I got a free GeForceFX 5900 Ultra from nvidia at GenCon so I got my problem resolved by using their drivers but before that I learned quite a bit about how to get the ati drivers working, so I might be of some help. First off, what are you using for a motherboard [specifically your agp version (ie: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0...)], a video card and what distro are you using. Also, if you could post the log file from XFree86 that would help allot, if you don't know where to find it let me know and I might be able to help their too but I'm a bit of a newb my self.

I'm using 2.4.21 (mandrake 9.1) and right now everything seems to be agp 3.0 (8x).. i've heard this is a problem but i dont know how to set it back to 2.0 (4x agp)... The main error i've been getting is the agpgart thingy wont load and it cant find the aperture size of my vid card (radeon 9500)... i've tried going to a new kernel 2.5.66 and 2.5.75 and 2.6.1 .. but i keep getting different errors during compilation so i said screw it i'm sticking with xp

I know this sounds like a "JUST REFORMAT" type answer but, I had the same problems until I compiled and ran the 2.6.0-test3 kernel. Everything worked right out of the box, no errors, no agpgart problems and instant direct rendering. I am running Slackware 9 with a Radeon 9000 32mb mobility graphics chipset. I normally don't mess with development type kernels too much but I have to say 2.6.0-test3 is WONDERFUL so far. Try it!!!

Actually their should be an agpgart driver that comes with your video card driver that you downloaded (schneider, etc...). I have to look it up but their is a setting in your XF86Config file that will enable the internal vs kernel gart driver. That should fix your problem, *should*.

makai_wi - yeah let me know if you find that setting... the fglrxconfig is supposed to set that up but i dont think it is.... if not i'll try that 2.6.-test3 kernel (i think i tried test1 before)... that will be my last attempt, though

btw ati has just released a firegl driver or whatever for XFree 4.3

Awesome, I thought they were going to dump all support and drivers for linux since they signed the contract for the xbox.

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ps The new driver dosn't show up on their website, where did you see it?

Okay the setting is ' Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes" ', that should do it. If x dosen't launch let me know what the out put is and we can go from their :-).

<a href=http://www.ati.com/support/products/workstation/fireglz1/linux/fireglz1linuxdrivers.html?type=linux&prodType=firegl&prod=fireLinBedriver&submit.x=15&submit.y=11>http://www.ati.com/support/products/...15&submit.y=11</a>

This is a firegl driver.. i have no idea if its supposed to work with radeon and i dunno what that german guy does to change it to the radeon driver.

I'll try that useinternalagpgart when i get home and let you know.. shouldn't it be set to "no" or is that for the internal driver and not for the internal kernal agpgart ?!? i'll try both.. thanks!

o i guess i dont need the html..oops