Hi

I keep seeing threads of people having same problem but i tried all the proposed solutions and nothing worked. What i am after is getting 3D acceleration on my linux box. I run 2.6.5'ed RedHat9

I tried following lots of different guides and it all was frutless so far - still shows Mesa OpenGL drivers.

Here is the excerpt of XFree86's log with the error - i have not find a similar one on net

Thanks

(II) fglrx(0): detected XFree86 version: 4.3.0
(II) Loading extension ATIFGLRXDRI
(II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 1
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 2
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 3
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card3
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 4
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card4
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 5
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card5
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 6
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card6
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 7
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card7
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 8
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card8
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 9
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card9
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 10
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card10
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 11
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card11
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 12
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card12
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 13
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card13
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
drmOpenDevice: minor is 14
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed!
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xd0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x08000000
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1152,8191)
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1152,864) (front color buffer - assumption)
(==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled
(==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled

...


Thanks
A lot
Alex

Looks like DRI wasn't installed correctly -- I'm having trouble with this myself -- but the fglrx driver works for me (fglrxinfo outputs ATI).
If you're still getting Mesa in glxinfo, try ATI's 3.7.6 driver, I believe it works without the patches mentioned in Erol's post.

EDIT: I have a 9700 Pro and A7N8X as well.

Keep trying, I've gotten this to work before and believe me it was worth it.

icey,

sorry to bug you
can you please list all the things (steps) you made to install it correctly? maybe there is a guide you were following?

I tried so many different guides and nothing worked

I did not install no DRI. Did i have to do that? I only tried to install a driver (the latest 3.7.6 from ati)

- do you run 2.4.x kernel or 2.6.x
- what graphics related settings do you have in your kernel config, and what's modular and what's built in kernel? (i assume you compiled your kernel)
- did you have to uninstall Mesa?
- also, did you install any other drivers to make it work? (eg. nvidia nForce)


Thanks
Alex

This is the ending part of my dmesg:


fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 431 MBytes.
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 3.7.6 [Mar 5 2004] on minor 0
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000

well here is the proof that i am still a noob

- i did not know that i have to install DRI package for radeon. Strangely enough no guide said anything about this!

So now tthat i have installed it I get no erros in dmesg or XFree86.log
but get the following error when type fglrxinfo:

X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 145 (XFree86-DRI)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 ()
Value in failed request: 0x76
Serial number of failed request: 27
Current serial number in output stream: 27


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also module "radeon" does not load automatically - is that normal?

Thanks
Alex

ALRIGHT!

finally i got it to work

it required bugless dri module: 20040208 as per erol's instructions

Cheers!
Alex

Great! following instructions CAREFULLY is really key here.

have fun.