Re: Problems with ATI Fire GX1 128MB card on Dell Precision 360 running RedHat 7.2

["david moloney" <moloned tcd ie>]

Useful link about fix and 875p motherboards:
http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1610236
----- Original Message -----
From: "david moloney" <moloned tcd ie>
To: <xfree86-list redhat com>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: Problems with ATI Fire GX1 128MB card on Dell Precision 360
running RedHat 7.2


> Problem solved:
>
> the fix is to add the following line to /etc/modules.conf  (as root):
>
> options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
>
> after this you can do modprobe and lsmod to see that agpgart is running
and
> then startx.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris www linux org uk>
> To: <xfree86-list redhat com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Problems with ATI Fire GX1 128MB card on Dell Precision 360
> running RedHat 7.2
>
>
> > On Thu, 29 May 2003, david moloney wrote:
> >
> > >  j.. A clear description of the problem.
> > >  k..     The log below shows what the problem is ... essentially
startx
> aborts  because it cant access the AGP HW
> > >  l.. EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENODEV"
> > >  (EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP
> > >I installed the required rpm from ATIs website
>
(http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/firegl/linux/linuxfireglx1z18x00x410296.
> html)
> > >which ran without a problem.
> >
> > It looks like the ATI agpgart doesn't support your AGP chipset,
> > or it isn't loading properly for some reason, or else you do not
> > have the drivers installed correctly.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mike A. Harris
> >
> >
> >
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