I have a motherboard based on VIA KT400, and I had problems running my nvidia card until i put "acpi=off" in my boot command. Just a suggestion.
Matt On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 19:16, Andrew Kirilenko wrote: > Hello! > > Blah! I have recompiled XFree - the same problem with glxinfo and > glxgears! However, `glxinfo -i` works and shows that there is no direct > rendering. > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:14:51AM +0300, Andrew Kirilenko wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I have got new PC with ATI Radeon 9100 and Gigabyte's MB based on > > KT400A. I'd like to get hardware opengl. The very first thing, I have > > tried is using agpgart and xfree-drm on 2.4 kernel. After some time > > fscking with it and googling, I have found that agpgart in 2.4 doesn't > > support version 3 of AGP (or something like this), and it's impossible > > to tell KT400A to not use this AGP3 with my videocard, and only solution > > is to use 2.6 kernel. OK. I have emerged developemt-sources (test6 at > > the moment), compiled them and booted into without any problems. The > > first problem, I have noticed that there is no DMA (and `hdparm /dev/hda > > -d 1` can't set it). Blah. OK. Maybe I have missed something when > > configured kernel, but this is not so important at the moment. Then I > > have tried `modprobe agpgart` and it was successfull - my radeon was > > detected correctly. After this I have started `emerge xfree-drm` and it > > simply failed (it supports nothing but 2.4 and patch for 2.5 is > > commented in the ebuild and missing in xfree-drm/files). OK. No problem. > > I made `make menuconfig` again and enabled DRM provided with kernel. > > After recompiling and rebooting I have inserted all necessary modules > > and `startx`. OK. X was started without problems. Superb! I started > > `glxinfo` and simply got segfault (and the same with `glxgears`). > > > > I'm wondering if DRM from kernel is suitable for my XFree version (4.3)? > > Or it's possible to get xfree-drm for 2.6 somewhere? Or I need to boot > > 2.6 and recompile X (`X -version` shows "Build Operating System: Linux > > 2.4.19-4GB i686 [ELF]")? Or something else? I'm here, waiting for > > suggestions :) > > > > PS. Sorry for such looooooong story and my "not perfect" english. > > > > Best regards, > > Andrew. > > > > Best regards, > Andrew. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
