Radeon fglrx and Nforce 2 agp and direct rendering problem

[Robin Laing]

RoboticGolem wrote:
> I dont know if it makes you feel any better, but whenever I use dri
> and do anything that uses hardware scaling, it locks up solid.  Have
> to hit the switch to get it going again.
> 
> ATI Radeon (As my Gforce wasnt compatable with this mb)
> MPX motherboard, AMD Agp chipset...  768 I think...  *shrug*
> 
> No hardware accel for me yet.
> 
> =(
> 
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 09:32:10 -0700 (PDT), Hesty P <hestyp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I hope this is the right place to ask for help. I've
>>got my new Radeon 9600 Pro and installed fglrx-3.11.1
>>driver for it. To my dismay, somehow the DRI doesn
>>work:
>>
>>direct rendering: No
>>    GLX_ATI_render_texture
>>OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
>>
>>So I checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what's wrong:
>>
>>(II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0xe5000000
>>(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error
>>"xf86_ENOMEM"
>>(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP
>>(II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for
>>kernel
>>(II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA
>>0x22a8f000 at 0xf6f45000
>>(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: 0xc0000000 FBMappedSize:
>>0x08000000
>>
>>So it says no AGP? Then I tried:
>>
>>[root at localhost root]# modprobe agpgart
>>FATAL: Module agpgart not found.
>>
>>Okay, so I remember I'm using NForce2 Mobo and I
>>googled around. I found some mention of nvidia-agp
>>module. I tried that:
>>
>>[root at localhost root]# modprobe nvidia-agp
>>FATAL: Module nvidia_agp not found.
>>
>>Where can I find this module? I've tried both internal
>>and external AGP option with fglrx. Both gives no DRI.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Hesty
>>
>

I gave up on ATI after a month of fighting.  To bad the NVidia didn't 
work.  Has ATI provided DRI support for the 9600.  They didn't have it 
in January when I gave up.  I purchased a NVida and had it running 
with full support within minutes of closing the case.

I think you have to build the module from the ATI drivers.  Look at 
the readme files.

-- 
Robin Laing