FC2 3d acceleration- fglrx / nforce2 issues.

gary c lucas gary_lucas at telus.net
Mon Jun 28 05:48:41 UTC 2004


Ok,  I compiled the fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0.i386.rpm and it seems to give a
cleanish compile but upon modprobe I get a segmentation fault I'd send
you the whole error message except I can't capture it on stderr and it
only appears when I'm running from a command line (ie runlevel 3).

Once I do a modprobe and get my segmentation fault I can't remove the
module as the kernel says it's in use.  

Everything I tested I've done from the command line,  I'm starting to
think that there is some sort of subtle incompatibility with my
motherboard chipset (nforce 2) and my video card and linux.  

I also compiled and installed a vanilla 2.6.6 kernel with the
appropriate agpgart as both in the kernel and as modules.  When compiled
as part of the kernel I get a "Can not load agpgart" X error message
along with the fglrx error messages.

Here's the rpm log for good measure,  as I say it looks good but I get a
segmentation fault from modprobe when I try to install it.

Preparing...               
##################################################
fglrx                      
##################################################
*** Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel module
failed.
*** Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
ATI module generator V 2.0
==========================
initializing...
cleaning...
patching 'highmem.h'...
skipping patch for 'drmP.h', not needed
skipping patch for 'drm_os_linux.h', not needed
assuming new VMA API since we do have kernel 2.6.x...
doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.6/build
SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.6'
  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agp3.o
  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/nvidia-agp.o
  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.o
  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/i7505-agp.o
  CC [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o
  LD [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
  CC      /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.mod.o
  LD [M]  /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.6'
build succeeded with return value 0
duplicating results into driver repository...
done.
==============================
- creating symlink
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel module
done.
Installed: qt3 (gcc 3.2) based control panel application
 === 
ATI display drivers successfully installed
please run 'fglrxconfig' now
 === 

Gary C. Lucas

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 05:30, ne... wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2004 at 15:20, gary c lucas in a soothing rage wrote:
> >Been trying to get 3d acceleration going on my newly installed FC2
> >system.  
> >
> >Hardware:
> >        Asus a7n8x vm (Nvidia nforce 2 chipset)
> >        Sapphire Radeon 9600 atlantis
> >
> >I've read multiple how-to's and configuration guides (rage3d, ATI linux
> >how to) and I've hit a major stumbling block that I can't seem to get
> >over.  
> >
> >I have downloaded and installed:  
> >fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0.i386.rpm 
> >and I've recompiled a 2.6.4 kernel several times with various options. 
> >- with xfree dri support,  agpgart as a module, agpgart built in,  with
> >the nforce2 support built in etc.
> I have a Radeon 9200 and use the stock updated FC2 kernel.
> I would suggest you use that.
> 
> [...]
> >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
> [...]
> >drmOpenDevice: minor is 14
> >drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14
> >drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> >drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
> >drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> >(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 available (MMIO)             *
> >(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available                *
> >(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
> Compile the fglrx rpm using the kernel-2.6.6-1.435 kernel.
> Post the results here when you are done.
> 
> N.Emile...
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