ATI 8500 3D

[Peter Hutnick]

Peter Hutnick wrote:

> One thing at a time.


Okay, here's where I am.

If I load the fglrx module the Xorg.0.log indicates that everything is 
good.  (I forgot to copy it to my portable media last night.  I don't 
have Internet access at home.)  But the screen is totally black.

If radeon.ko is loaded fglrx.ko won't load.  If radeon.ko is loaded I 
get usable X, but the following in my Xorg.0.log:

   (II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit
   drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
   drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
   drmOpenDevice: open result is 7, (OK)
   drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
   drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
   drmOpenDevice: open result is 7, (OK)
   drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
   drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
   drmOpenDevice: open result is 7, (OK)
   drmOpenDevice: minor is 1
   drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
   drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
   drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
   drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[** repeated for /card2-/card14 **]
   (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 [sic] available (MMIO)             *
   (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available                *
   (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

There seems to be a spelling error int he message.  I think that's ATI's 
message.  So much for commercial==high quality :-(

Some stuff I found on google indicates that the fact that I have 1024mb 
of RAM may be the problem.  I'm going to play around with passing mem= 
to the kernel to see if it helps.

Since I'm going to go all weekend without Internet access, does anyone 
have any other suggestions I can play around with?

-Peter