FC2 3d acceleration- fglrx / nforce2 issues.

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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.

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>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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