I'm a relative newbie to Linux, and have installed Suse 10.0 on an old Gateway machine (P3, 450Mhz), so that I can get really comfortable with it.

Sax2 reports that it has an ATI Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X Video Card installed. Everything works fine, except that 3D graphic acceleration is greyed out, and if I try to run any simple games that need 3D graphics (e.g KhunPhan) I get an error message, saying that 3D graphic support is not configured.

I have looked at the ATI website, and at various threads in different forums, but have just got more and more confused!

Could someone help me? I really need a novices guide to how to deal with this problem!

Thanks in advance.

I think that card is too old to get drivers from ati for 3d support for it. What you need to do is see if dri will work for it. I think the page is dri.sourceforge.net

Thanks, Azriel

I have looked at the DRI website (it's moved to dri.freedesktop.org). It's a bit mind-boggling for a newbie like me! I just don't know where to begin with "building the kernel".

Anyway, I'm gradually extracting some information from my machine about what exactly is installed and where, and I hope to post this soon, in the hope that I can get some more help.

Thanks again

In the hope that someone can help me get this card working, here is some more information. My apologies for posting all this information, but I thought it might help.

The relevant output from Yast>Hardware Info.:

15: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4742'
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4742'
linux.subsystem = 'pci'
linux.hotplug_type = 1 (0x1)
pci.subsys_product = 'Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2X'
pci.subsys_vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
info.product = '3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X'
pci.product = '3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X'
info.vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
pci.vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
pci.device_protocol = 0 (0x0)
pci.device_subclass = 0 (0x0)
pci.device_class = 3 (0x3)
pci.subsys_vendor_id = 4098 (0x1002)
pci.subsys_product_id = 132 (0x84)
pci.vendor_id = 4098 (0x1002)
pci.product_id = 18242 (0x4742)
pci.linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0'
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_7191'
info.bus = 'pci'
linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0'
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0'

Contents of etc/x11/XF86Config

Section "Device"
BoardName "3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "ati"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Screen 0
VendorName "ATI"
EndSection

Contents of usr/X11R6/lib/modules.dri:

i810_dri.so, i915, mga, r128, r200, radeon, sis, tdfx, unichrome, via

Contents of usr/X11R6/module/drivers
pm_drv.o, ati, atimisc, chips, cirrus, cirrus_laguna.o, cirrus_alpine.o, cyrix, dummy, fbdev,glint, i128, i740, i810, imstt, linux(folder), mga, neomagic, nsc, nv, nvidia, r128, radeon, endition, rival128, s3, s3virge, savage, siliconmotion, sis, tdfx, tga, trident, tseng, vesa, vga, via, vmware


I have tried following the troubleshooting guide from the DRI website, with the following results:

If I type "dmesg | grep agp" I get:

Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000

If I type "dmesg |grep drm" I get nothing.

HELP!