On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 09:48:37AM +0200, Reto Wyss wrote: > > hi, > > > > recently i bought myself one of these new ibooks 700 12" Combo with an ATI > > Radeon Mobility LY (AGP) card. i installed debian on it, and everything > > went fine. > > > > it was a bit harder to get X working. it works now, but not accelerated. > > i'm using the kernel 2.4.19-rc1-ben0, and i downloaded, compiled and > > installed XFree86 4.2.0. > > > > now, the story is the following. when i start up X, everything goes fine, > > however when i look into the log, it says that AGP is not available and > > later on that direct rendering is disabled. this is confirmed by glxinfo. > > an lsmod reveals that the agpgart module was not loaded. so i load it by > > hand and try again. now X comes up again but ... the mouse cursor looks > > like a bar-code, and the background has a very strange, irregular greenish > > pattern. at this stage i can still tear it down, however if i start X > > using startx (running kde) X freezes. running top remotely yields that X > > is using 100% cpu. when i check the log this time everything seems fine, > > AGP was found, DRI enabled and so on. > > In my case is even worse, now that you bring the issue to some light: > > boo:~# lsmod > Module Size Used by Not tainted > agpgart 20100 0 (unused) > > and from the log: > > (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available > (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize -- falling back to PCI mode. > (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] Make sure you have the agpgart kernel module loaded. > > So I am missing something, here. > > Can you post your config file, so I can take a look at it? > > J > >
here is the interesting part of my XFree86-4 config file: Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Radeon Mobility" Driver "ati" BusID "PCI:0:16:0" Option "AGPMode" "1" Option "UseFBDev" "true" EndSection you see, nothing fancy ... reto -- __________________________________________________________ Reto Wyss Phone : +41 1 635 30 72 Institute of Neuroinformatics Fax : +41 1 635 30 53 University/ETH Zuerich Mobile: +41 76 436 22 75 Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zuerich, Switzerland __________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]