if you type " lsmod " do you see the agp module ?
i think it's missing.

egag

nope, its not there.. what is the name of it? should i add it into my rc.modules file? well, i am assuming that it is agpgart... when i try to insert it, i get this error...


root:/home/atlantis # insmod agpgart
Using /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o.gz: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o.gz: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg


this is the output from dmesg

root:/home/atlantis # dmesg | grep agpgart
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset (device id: 3128), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1.
agpgart: no supported devices found.
Based on agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset (device id: 3128), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1.
agpgart: no supported devices found.
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset (device id: 3128), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1.
agpgart: no supported devices found.

the missing of agp support is a prob.
in your xorg.conf you've set " " Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no" " ?
in that case try "yes" to try the ati-agp module.

otherwise you can give the option "agp_try_unsupported=1. " a chance.
i think to do that you have to add the line.: ' append="agp_try_unsupported=1." '
in the linux section of lilo.conf. ( there might be better ways to do this )

egag

i have changed it to no, and what i did to get the agp_try_unsupported=1 was just add it to the end of the 'insmod agpgart' int the /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file to look like
'insmod agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1'
now im getting 3000fps in glxgears, but i still cant run ut2004 or fgl_glxgears. this is the error with fgl_glxgears

fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrCreateObject failed!!
FGLTexMgr: open of shared memory object failed (Function not implemented)
__FGLTexMgrCreateObject: __FGLTexMgrSHMmalloc failed!!!

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now im getting 3000fps in glxgears,
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well, seems your acceleration is working ok ( 3000 is very good i think )
but looking at the errors i would say there's some memory-mapping error, but is't related to the prog's you want to run ( as glxgears is running )
and i really don't know about gaming.
maybe best to open a new thread concerning the error with fgl_glxgears.

egag

check here to fix that problem: http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4687.html

ilubtofart> thanks for that, i'm going to give my own 9200SE another chance to get on the job

egag

thanks, that made fgl_glxgears work correctly, now im getting this error from ut2004

Xlib: extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD" missing on display ":0.0".

i searched the ATI web page, and it says that this error occurs when Wrong glx library used (old library not renamed or deleted)... how do i delete my old libraries or rename them?? is that Mesa??

i think these are the libraries that are being used

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2004-11-28 16:01 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2004-11-28 16:01 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1*

is there a way to uninstall them, or make them link to the ATI ones, what would i change the symlink to?

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usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
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that is the libGL that came with the fglrx driver.
but i don't know how it's linked.

egag