FC2 T2 and ATI fglrx
Chris McDonough
chrism at plope.com
Sat Apr 17 20:23:33 UTC 2004
Hmm. I never had a problem with agpgart loading. FWIW, apparently it's
not necessary to load an external agpgart as a module if you have
"Option UseInternalAGPGART" set to "yes" in your X config file. That's
how mine is set, so I'm probably not even using the loaded module even
though I load it from my modprobe.conf. I can't help much with fglrx
module not loading; that works fine for me. But I'm not even sure
*that's* necessary, either, as I've read reports that X will load the
module for you when it starts.
Due to an N x M problem (kernel version/kernel settings/x server
version/x server settings/mobo chipset/ATI driver version/patches to ATI
driver/ATI card model), it's all very confusing; my setup basically just
happens to work accidentally. It took me about 10 hours to get it
going. I probably would have been better off buying another video
card. But I found these resources helpful during the process:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/18/2003/10/4/108847
http://www.linuxgames.com/news/feedback.php?identiferID=6532&action=flatview
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&forumid=18&threadid=164648
http://www.rage3d.com/content/articles/atilinuxhowto/
http://users.actrix.co.nz/michael/radeon9200.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-October/msg00862.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=759898
http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html
I wish there was a magic "make it work" button, but there's not. :-(
- C
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 14:13, Gustavo M. Tandeciarz wrote:
> Ok so i'm still having problems with agpgart loading as a module as recommended in the steps below...
> i did everything as was described and still when i lsmod agpgart is not listed, after installing the fglrx driver successfully, fglrx is not listed...
> i ran make gconfig and told AGPGART to load as a module and disabled regparm, also i disabled dri, and agpgart isnt loading...i dont know how many ways i can repeat myself in this 1 email... :P
> anyway, some help would be great!
> please advise
> gmt
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Chris McDonough
> Sent: Thu 4/15/2004 6:52 PM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: Re: FC2 T2 and ATI fglrx
>
>
>
> Thanks Jesus,
>
> I finally did get it running under FC2T2 after many hours of trial-and-error
> (mandatory useless glxgears score: 3083 FPS / Radeon 9600 Pro).
>
> For those of you who are trying to do this, I can't recount all the steps I
> took in a sane way, but here's the laundry list in no particular order:
>
> 1. I started with a vanilla 2.6.5 kernel with a couple of the more
> innocuous RedHat
> patches applied from the source RPM (in particular, I didn't use the
> huge -mc patch).
> YMMV, but see #2 & 3. You probably won't get away with using a stock
> Fedora kernel because both CONFIG_REGPARM and DRI are enabled by default
> at least
> in 2.6.5-1-315.
> 2. You need to disable CONFIG_REGPARM in your kernel (it breaks the binary
> ATI driver).
> 3. You need to disable DRI in the kernel "Character devices" configuration.
> 4. You need to enable AGP in the kernel "Character devices" configuration.
> 4. You should probably enable AGP to load as a module also in "Character
> devices"
> (as opposed to a compiled-in thing), although this apparently isn't
> strictly necessary.
> Or is it? I have no idea. I did it as a module, that worked.
> 5. I have in my /etc/modprobe.conf:
>
> install fglrx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install fglrx
> install agpgart /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install agpgart
>
> I have no idea whether either is necessary, but it works.
> 6. You need to remove the Xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL rpm forcefully in order to
> install ATI's
> RPM.
> 6. I patched a line in ATI's agpgart_be.c file before running "make.sh"
> because I have a
> motherboard with a VIA KT400. It's hard to tell whether this was
> necesary or not,
> as I had to go through so many gyrations to get it going, but it worked.
> I patched their
> sources in build_mod
>
> from (starting at line 6068):
> { PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8377_0,
> PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA,
> VIA_APOLLO_KT400,
> "Via",
> "Apollo KT400",
> via_generic_setup }, // AGP v2
>
> to:
> { PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8377_0,
> PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA,
> VIA_APOLLO_KT400,
> "Via",
> "Apollo KT400",
> via_kt400_setup }, // AGP v2
>
> (sorry for bad diff format, I'm typing this by hand)
>
> That's all I can remember, anyway. I had an old XF86Config lying around
> that worked under Debian on the same box with the same card, so I didn't
> need to go through the fglrxconfig nightmare.
>
> FWIW, when it first started working, it looked horrible. But using their qt
> config tool and adjusting the gamma correction sliders made it look ok.
>
> - C
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jesus D" <jes88matrix at yahoo.com>
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:08 PM
> Subject: Re: FC2 T2 and ATI fglrx
>
>
> > Hi Chris:
> >
> > Iam running FC2 test2 with kernel tree 2.6.5 and
> > 2.6.6-rc1 working good with ATI fglrx driver and
> > Xorg-X11-6.7.0, 2D and 3D working excelent, tux game
> > very nice.
> >
> > Iam have machine eMachine M6807.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> >
> > --- Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Before I go off into the weeds trying to do this, I
> > > was wondering if
> > > anyone here has the binary ATI fglrx drivers working
> > > in any fashion (2D
> > > or 3d) with the following combination of system
> > > components:
> > >
> > > - 2.6.mumblemumble kernel
> > > - X.org X11R6.7.0 (aka XFree86 4.4)
> > >
> > > (in other words, the stuff that comes with Fedora
> > > Core 2 test 2 ;-)
> > >
> > > Video from my Radeon 9600 Pro is working just fine
> > > at the moment thanks
> > > to the VESA driver, so I probably shouldn't mess
> > > with it, but the devil
> > > perched on my shoulder keeps telling me I need high
> > > glxgears scores to
> > > run Emacs <wink>, and Tuxracer keeps calling my
> > > name... ;-)
> > >
> > > - C
> > >
> > >
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