Against my better judgement, I'm trying to install a 9600xt AIW in Gentoo. I'm running 2.6.9. I emerged and set up ati-drivers, ran fglrxconfig, copied it to xorg.conf, put the fglrx module in modules.autoload.d, ran opengl-update ati. Everything I could find, and hardware acceleration will not work. The module is running, but nothing is using it. I've checked to make sure that the agpgart is running out of the driver, and NOT the kernel, and I even tried it the other way(using the kernel's agpgart support, and disabling it in the module). The log file shows a few warnings, but nothing that would prevent hardware acceleration. Any ideas anybody can give me would be awesome. And feel free to contact me via AIM at ColBondMW because I think this could take some work.

Thanks
CBMW

Does # dmesg show any errors ?

Did you make sure that direct rendering manager is deselected in the kernel
(character devices->direct rendering manager) ?

DRM is disabled in the kernel.

last lines of dmesg:

allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
Fire GL built-in AGP-support
Based on agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M
agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset (device id: 3188), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1.
agpgart: no supported devices found.
[fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 6204 using kernel context 0
eth0: no IPv6 routers present


anything you could tell me would be great.

FYI, the ATI drivers will *not* work correctly (provide hardware rendering) under X.org 6.8 at this time. Either use X.org 6.7 (I do on my desktop and it works fine) or XFree86.


Håkan

I was running 6.7 until earlier today when I'd exhausted everything else and updated just to see if it would work. I've rolled it back to 6.7 already.

The error message suggests that it can find the AGP support for you chipset (which I assume is VIA). Have you complied this into the kernel or as a module.

If as a module you will need to include this is modules to load. So your modules to load will be something like :

agpgart
via-agp (I do not know what this name actually is - just guessing !)
fglrx

Also I assume xorg.conf has: Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"

Regards

Shmonkey

ok, via_agp and agpgart are being loaded as modules.
All the modules load just fine, but I do not have hardware acceleration.

dmesg shows me this:

irq moderation: disabled
scatter-gather: enabled
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
[fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 6249 using kernel context 0
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

/var/log/Xorg.0.log only gives me the usual warnings about APM, couldn't detect XFree86 version, and failing to load DRI

Hello guyz . good to hear about Ati 9600 xt discussion.I have encounterd the same.using gigabyte Ati Radeon 9600 xt 256 MB AGP on Redhat linux 9 and xfree86 4.3.0.Also tried ATI drivers from website n various other radeon drivers but dint work.Curently using VESA drivers. Can any body recommend something.I will be very thankful.

since I'm running gentoo, I just did a google search for "ati drivers gentoo" and got several good walkthroughs and faq's. I recommend going through one of those and then posting if you can find a specific error. Mine's at the point I've read everything I could find without getting much help.

[fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 6249 using kernel context 0

I had this error, it went away when I disabled Direct Rendering Manager in the kernel.
You have already done this so it is not the cause of your problem.

You will probably find that in this case Process 6249 is the X window system.

This means (I think) that something else is already trying to drive/access the 3D acceleration component.

Make sure that you also do not have radeon compiled in the kernel or as a module in the Character devices section of the kernel configuration.

Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes" in xorg.conf could also cause this if you have agpgart as a module .

I don't know what else to suggest, anything else and I am probably just repeating the how to's that you have already read.

Good luck

Shmonkey

Ok, DRM is disabled. The only place I could find the radeon thing is device drivers -> graphics support. The radeon only shows up when "support for frame buffer devices" is added, which it wasn't. Do I need support for frame buffer devices and deselect radeon?

ok, i FINALLY got a real error out of this thing. This comes from /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENODEV"
(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP

i have no idea what it means.