I had problems getting 2.6.13 to get working with my vid card went back
to 12

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 09:08 +0200, gentoo_falstaff wrote:
> When I was using kernel 2.6.12 all was fine with these configuration
> options:
> 
> <M> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
> < >   ALI chipset support
> < >   ATI chipset support
> < >   AMD Irongate, 761, and 762 chipset support
> < >   AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support
> <M>   Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support
> < >   NVIDIA nForce/nForce2 chipset support
> < >   SiS chipset support
> < >   Serverworks LE/HE chipset support
> < >   VIA chipset support
> < >   Transmeta Efficeon support
> <M> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
> < >   3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ (NEW)
> < >   ATI Rage 128 (NEW)
> <M>   ATI Radeon
> < >   Intel I810 (NEW)
> < >   Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G
> < >   Matrox g200/g400 (NEW)
> < >   SiS video cards (NEW)
> 
> When I compiled kernel 2.6.13   the AGP support was not recognized anymore
> after "modprobe agpgart" or "insmod agpgart" followed by chipset module;
> I was still
> not using x11-drm package or ati-drivers.
> 
> 
> Trying to install ati-drivers I found that my card was not supported...
>    (P.S. after unmerging the package I had to issue the command
>    opengl-update xorg-x11
>    to switch back to Mesa opengl, otherwise the simple command "glxinfo"
> will exit with errors...)
> 
> 
> Trying to install x11-drm I had to disable the following options in the
> kernel:
> 
> < > Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
> < >   3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ (NEW)
> < >   ATI Rage 128 (NEW)
> < >   ATI Radeon
> < >   Intel I810 (NEW)
> < >   Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G
> < >   Matrox g200/g400 (NEW)
> < >   SiS video cards (NEW)
> 
> and I had to setup the variable
>   VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
> in /etc/make.conf to compile the package.
> 
> After a correct compilation of  kernel and x11-drm, DRI was not running yet!
> I tried this options in the kernel:
> 
> <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
> < >   ALI chipset support
> < >   ATI chipset support
> < >   AMD Irongate, 761, and 762 chipset support
> < >   AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support
> <*>   Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support
> < >   NVIDIA nForce/nForce2 chipset support
> < >   SiS chipset support
> < >   Serverworks LE/HE chipset support
> < >   VIA chipset support
> < >   Transmeta Efficeon support
> < > Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
> < >   3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ (NEW)
> < >   ATI Rage 128 (NEW)
> < >   ATI Radeon
> < >   Intel I810 (NEW)
> < >   Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G
> < >   Matrox g200/g400 (NEW)
> < >   SiS video cards (NEW)
> 
> and all was fine... Direct Rendering up and running!
> 
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