I'm running red hat 8.0 and I recently installed Radeon 9700 pro. It was working great and so was the graphics acceleration. I could see that it was working through lsmod. However, i recenly updated the linux kernel through red hat rpm manager and now the agpgart modules is not working. It currenly says unused. Do I need to reconfigure now that I've updated the kernel to red hat's most recent update. Any help would be appreciated.

What modifications did the update make to the kernel? Was it a version upgrade? And was it necessary?

In addition I have been having troubles of my own with my new system and a 9700 Pro. What motherboard do you have? I'm currently in the market for one as the one I went with isn't yet supported by the kernel.

thanks,
Barto

I'm running ASUS p4pe. I haven't had any issues with it. Its actually great. The onboard sound card works well. The onboard raid didn't work and it required use of the new ata connectors. The radeon 9700 pro works great until I updated. The update fixed a problem with the glibc library. I know the driver uses that library. I'm thinking i'll need to reinstall. It probably wasn't necessary for me to upgrade. Before I reinstall, I think i might update the fglrxconfig file first. I'll post if everything goes well. Thanks, j

Looking at the P4Pe it looks like its not that bad of a board. My only concerns are with the memory and hard drive that I've purchased. The hard drive is a Maxtor ATA133 HD and the memory is a 512 stick of DDR400. Will there be any compatability problems?

The board's guide said that all ata as well as ultra ata is supported. I even hooked my western digital 80mb 7200 to a serial to ultra ata adapter and then to the motherboard. It worked. As for your ram, the board doesn't support ddr 400. Only 333. I heard you can use the 400 but it will only run at 333. I haven't tried it though. eastj

You need to rebuild the fglrx.o module to match your new kernel-<version>.

You can either re-install the rpm driver pkg, or go into /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod and run the make.sh script to build the module.
Then backup one dir. [cd ../] and run the make_install.sh script.

Thanks, untamed... That was an easy solution to my problem. J

Hey, I was hoping that since you got everything working you could maybe help me...? I have a 9700, and I'm trying to get it to work in RedHat 8.0. I reinstalled the driver twice (no updates at all), and tried everything I can. The only problem I'm having now is that it's not doing any acceleration. I tried looking at the display settings GUI and there's an option for 3D acceleration, but it's greyed out and not accessible. XWindows won't start when I try to load the DRI module, saying there's a problem with agpgart and that it can't aquire AGP (not a direct quote).

Any ideas?

Thanks alot
Brian

if the agpgart module is loading correctly then could it be a permissions problem on /dev/agpgart?

I had the same problem. If I remember correctly, it was caused by an old libGL component. ATI gave two options:

1) rpm -i --force <ati_package_name>.rpm to force over the mesa-libGL files.

and ....

I did it the second way because they said this is the "more correct way".

2) rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.2.0-72
rpm -Uhv <ati_package_name>.rpm


I reconfigured using fglrxconfig and rebooted.

When I typed in lsmod, the agpgart was now being used. This solution only works for red hat 8.0.

I used the first method when I installed it in the first place... I haven't tried the second yet. I do OpenGL development... would it mess that up at all?

Thanks for the reply.
B

In fact the first way [...--force] is better IMHO, since it makes it easier to revert if need be, it doesn't really overwrite the libGL.so.1.2, it backs it up to dri-old-libGL.so.1.2 [...or something like that, I haven't rpm'ed them for a long while] ...but that's a little besides the point anyway since both ways will give the same end result, put Ati's libGL in /usr/X11R6/lib.

As far as your AGP issue is concerned, Slickfty2, some additionnal info will be needed.
Could you post your output to those commands,
dmesg | grep agp
cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log | grep EE
cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log | grep WW
cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log | grep agp

...and also what mobo chipset you're using, if it's a nforce2, don't even bother, the agp interface is only supported through their drivers ...for their [...nVidia] cards.

I tried your method 2. Same results as before. lsmod doesn't come up with agpgart or dri. I have no idea what's up with that.

I ran those commands. Here's a complete listing of what came out.

[Brian@localhost Brian]$ dmesg | grep 'agp'
[Brian@localhost Brian]$ cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log | grep EE
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[Brian@localhost Brian]$ cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log |grep WW
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx(0): DRI initialization failed!
[Brian@localhost Brian]$ cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log |grep agp
[Brian@localhost Brian]$
[Brian@localhost Brian]$

I don't honestly know how to check the chipset. It's an ATI Radeon 9700, I think the brand name was Saphire. I almost wonder if it isn't the card itself anyway, as I'm even having some trouble with it in Windows.

Thanks again
B

mobo chipset ...motherboard chipset.
The first FireGL drivers that ATI released, wouldn't support "powered by ATI" cards [...3rd party, like Saphire] maybe those new 2.9.6, being a FireGL release, don't either since your card is not even recognized.

Maybe you could see with lspci if your card is in fact on "BusID PCI:1:0:1" and correct it in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 if it's not, it's been knowned to happen.

Ahh... Well, I'm using the 2.5.1 drivers, and the XF86Config file doesn't even have the card specified as BusID PCI:1:0:1. When I use the display properties GUI (redhat 8), it recognizes the card as a Radeon 9700, but wants to use the vesa driver. I specified the fglrx driver (not on the list of drivers, had to type it in), but it still won't let me use 3D acceleration. If all else fails, I'm considering switching to a nVidia 4600... I'd love to keep my nice card, but if I can't get it working anyone also have ideas on good linux/windows cards?