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Problems w/ Radeon 9200 & ati's binary drivers

Hello all,
I'm trying to setup a Gigabyte Radeon 9200 on a Chaintech 7NJS Zenith mobo (with nforce2 chipset). I use ati's binary drivers version 3.2.8 and kernel 2.4.22-ck2 on Arch Linux [-current] with XF86-4.3.0.
The problem :

Code:

(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:1) found

(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENOMEM"

(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP

The result :

Code:

# glxinfo | grep direct

direct rendering: No

# glxgears 2>1 | head

501 frames in 5.0 seconds = 100.200 FPS

dmesg :

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agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M

agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset

agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000

[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 432 MBytes.

[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 3.2.8 [Sep 21 2003] on minor 0

Fire GL built-in AGP-support

[fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState  = 0x00000000 (hardware caps of chipset)

[fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 3199 using kernel context 0

/etc/modules.conf :

Code:

options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1

/etc/X11/XF86Config :

Code:

 [snip]

Driver      "fglrx"

ChipId      0x514D

 [/snip]

And last but not least :

Code:

# lspci  | grep ATI

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5961 (rev 01)

03:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5941 (rev 01)

I'm going berserk with this card. It doesn't even work with xf86's 'radeon' driver, with the same complaints. Anyone ?

I'm having the same problem with my system. Nforce 2 and Ati 9800. The problem is with the drivers for the nvidia mobo. If you have like say an nvidia video card then there is no problem. The problem is the generic agp driver. If you read the installation steps from nvidia it says there to recompile the kernel in order for the agp driver to be loaded. Unfortunately the driver does not work with my 4.2.0-6 kernel. I'm trying right now to downgrade my kernel to 4.2.0 w/c said the agp generic drivers works fine. I'm not sure what version of linux you have but if you follow the instructions and steps for recompiling your kernel then you can re-install your vga card again and hopefully it will work.

kernel 2.4.22-ck2 on Arch Linux it seemed it will work fine with your generic agp driver once you recompile.

The agp problem exists in kernel versions <=2.4.20 & that's why nvidia includes a patch for kernel 2.4.20 in nforce drivers. However kernels 2.4.21 & 2.4.22 (what I use) include support for nvgart & I have enabled it in my custom kernel configuration.
Anyway, thanx for answering. This box is my small brother's & he always 'tweaks' his hardware, I think he had enabled agp-8x, which I suspect causes the problem. I'll try to disable it when I'll reboot & I'll post the results.

Code:

Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"

that option in XF86Config solved the problem :).