I totally lost have here... I ran out and brought an ati radeon 9250 pci 265 mb card about two months ago and still can can't get the card to work. I have post this problem in the hardware channel. DavidPhillips (Moderator) and Robert G. Hays tried to help. According to what I was told I don't have any video modules loaded. ( more information is this address: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=332639 ).

If this is so, could someone please let me know; what I need to do to get this card working...

thx

you need to get the ati .run file from ati here

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...ge&folderID=27

and run it. it should give you a log if it fails. then post the log. i cant do much with what you gave me.

[Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
[Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
[Message] Kernel Module : Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
ATI module generator V 2.0
==========================
initializing...
cleaning...
patching 'highmem.h'...
probing for VMA API version...
doing script based build for kernel 2.4.x and similar
compiling './agpgart_be.c'...
compiling './agp3.c'...
compiling './i7505-agp.c'...
compiling './nvidia-agp.c'...
compiling './firegl_public.c'...
In file included from firegl_public.c:125:
firegl_public.h:56:48: warning: backslash and newline separated by space
firegl_public.h:57:6: warning: backslash and newline separated by space
firegl_public.h:58:41: warning: backslash and newline separated by space
firegl_public.c:207:1: warning: "pte_unmap" redefined
firegl_public.c:140:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
linking of fglrx kernel module...
duplicating results into driver repository...
done.
==============================
- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel module
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
failed.
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to install compiled kernel module - please consult readme.

if you do a " #modprobe fglrx ", what output do you get.
(if you get nothing, check with "lsmod" if it's loaded )

egag

modprobe fglrx:

Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
/lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: init_module: Operation not permitted
/lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: Hint: insmod errors can be caused byincorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: insmod fglrx failed

dmesg:

Linux version 2.4.29 (root@linex) (gcc version 3.3.4) #4 Tue Jun 14 11:37:22 EDT 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ef0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ef0000 - 0000000007effc00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007effc00 - 0000000007f00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007f00000 - 0000000008000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
126MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 32496
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28400 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
DMI not present.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux_test ro root=341
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 564.963 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1127.21 BogoMIPS
Memory: 126260k/129984k available (1160k kernel code, 3336k reserved, 428k data, 100k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Celeron (Coppermine) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9c0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/2410] at 00:1f.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 01:0e.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:01.0
radeonfb: ref_clk=2700, ref_div=12, xclk=20000 from BIOS
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
mtrr: base(0xe8000000) is not aligned on a size(0x10000000) boundary
radeonfb: ATI Radeon 9200 Y DDR SGRAM 256 MB
radeonfb: DVI port no monitor connected
radeonfb: CRT port CRT monitor connected
vesafb: abort, cannot reserve video memory at 0xe8000000
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe8000000, mapped to 0xc9806000, size 1536k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=20
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:551b
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
fb1: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
ICH: chipset revision 2
ICH: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1800-0x1807, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1808-0x180f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: SAMSUNG SV2011H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 07, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c02d1c00, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c02d1d3c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1613S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 39179952 sectors (20060 MB) w/1824KiB Cache, CHS=2591/240/63, UDMA(66)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 14668290 sectors (7510 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=970/240/63, UDMA(66)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 >
hdb: [PTBL] [913/255/63] hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 > hdb3
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 1.01, 11:40:29 Jun 14 2005
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 01:0d.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH 82801AA found at IO 0x1300 and 0x1200, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 9
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 2 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: CRY52 (Cirrus Logic CS4299 rev D)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 100k freed
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Adding Swap: 498004k swap-space (priority -1)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: LITE-ON Model: DVDRW SOHW-1613S Rev: AS04
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.5
tulip0: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
tulip0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
tulip0: Index #1 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
tulip0: Index #2 - Media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
tulip0: Index #3 - Media 10baseT-FDX (#4) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
tulip0: Index #4 - Media 100baseTx-FDX (#5) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7809 advertising 01e1.
eth0: Davicom DM9102/DM9102A rev 49 at 0x3000, 00:08:A1:14:A3:BC, IRQ 9.
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:1f.2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1820, IRQ 3
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-2, assigned address 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-2.3, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0xbc2/0x888) is not claimed by any active driver.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 41e1.
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST625211USB Rev: 4.02
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
USB Mass Storage support registered.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 90 MBytes.
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 01:0e.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:01.0
[fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Fire GL kernel module has to be loaded prior to any other DRM kernel module!

looks like you compiled that kernel yourself...right ?
i see radeonfb and vesafb build into the kernel.

if you have more things compiled in , like drm , it won't work.
( drm is what fglrx is complaining about...)

maybe try to make those things modular instead of build in.
( leave only the vesafb compiled into the kernel. )

egag

yes, my brother help me pick the setting for the configuration. I will go through the setting and change those setting to modules.

You're running the 2.4 kernel. The current ATI FireGL driver is compiled against 2.6.

Also, you need agpgart to be a module for it to work properly. If it's compiled directly into the kernel, fglrx won't be able to replace it, and you won't be able to use DRI.

yup what he said. the one above me. that is the deal. and the other guy might be right too. about the vesafb and rivafb. check that, you know if all else fails youll get nvidia next time huh.

thx for the help... I had to reinstall slack, because I could not figure out modules i need to the drivers working. With the fresh install and some editing in the fglrx_public.h. Its working...

lsmod:
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
snd-pcm-oss 36704 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 12152 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
i810_rng 2528 0 (unused)
uhci 24284 0 (unused)
usbcore 58860 1 [uhci]
snd-intel8x0 18080 1
snd-ac97-codec 52472 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm 54504 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-timer 13412 0 [snd-pcm]
snd 31268 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer]
soundcore 3396 4 [snd]
snd-page-alloc 4712 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd]
tulip 39200 1
crc32 2880 0 [tulip]
pcmcia_core 39172 0
ide-scsi 9392 0
fglrx 208488 0 (unused)