Re: [gentoo-user] KT400 & AGP-4X (Radeon 9800 Pro)
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 19:37, Dennis Freise wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:59:27 -0500 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 10:17, Dennis Freise wrote: > > > The radeon-drivers from X don't support the RV350 chipset (Radeon 9600 & > > > 9800 Pro) - that's my whole problem :) > > > > Not exactly true. They don't support accelerated 3D, but they have > > accelerated 2D. > > Could you please be so kind as to explain me how I get 2D acceleration only ? > The radeon driver of X didn't work here when selected. Starting X failed with a > message somewhat like "Your chipset is not supported by this driver." (don't > know the exact words now :) ) The issue here is not the rv350 chipset, but a few very new revisions of the latest cards that don't have supprt yet. They should soon. I was hoping one of xfree's patches would allow them to work anyway, but apparently not. Could you provide output of lspci -vv as an attached text file? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] KT400 & AGP-4X (Radeon 9800 Pro)
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:59:27 -0500 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 10:17, Dennis Freise wrote: > > The radeon-drivers from X don't support the RV350 chipset (Radeon 9600 & > > 9800 Pro) - that's my whole problem :) > > Not exactly true. They don't support accelerated 3D, but they have > accelerated 2D. Could you please be so kind as to explain me how I get 2D acceleration only ? The radeon driver of X didn't work here when selected. Starting X failed with a message somewhat like "Your chipset is not supported by this driver." (don't know the exact words now :) ) -- Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KT400 & AGP-4X (Radeon 9800 Pro)
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:53:59 -0500 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ati-drivers in portage work under 2.6. Wow, now actually that's good news :) So I'll go with kernel 2.6 & ati-drivers from portage. If it works, it couldn't be better. I'll post my result when I've tried it tomorrow. -- Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KT400 & AGP-4X (Radeon 9800 Pro)
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 10:17, Dennis Freise wrote: > The radeon-drivers from X don't support the RV350 chipset (Radeon 9600 & 9800 > Pro) - that's my whole problem :) Not exactly true. They don't support accelerated 3D, but they have accelerated 2D. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] KT400 & AGP-4X (Radeon 9800 Pro)
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 07:00, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:49:23 +0100 > Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thank you Spider, that was also my first thought :) But at the time I > > tried it (~2 month ago), the ati-drivers didn't support 2.6. I think > > i'll give it another shot and have a look if there are new > > (2.6-compatible) drivers out, or maybe the kernel itself now supports > > the RV350 ? :) > > No clue there really.. . As usual.. "donate me the hardware and I'll > dokument how to make it work" ;-) , The normal statement from me when > somone has better hardware than I do ;) ati-drivers in portage work under 2.6. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] KT400 & AGP-4X (Radeon 9800 Pro)
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:58:08 -0600 "Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your reply. > The ati-drivers don't need "agpgart". The "fglrx" kernel module has that > functionality built in. I have 9500pro and everything is working. That's right, it brings its own agpgart. Note that the included agpgart is taken from kernel 2.4, and does not support agp3 (like the 2.4-kernel ones). I also can't get X up without agpgart, the drivers won't let me. They load agpgart on the start of X and fail with an error if agpgart doesn't load. > If you can't get the ati-drivers to work, the "radeon" driver under X should > get you a good resolution and refresh. The radeon-drivers from X don't support the RV350 chipset (Radeon 9600 & 9800 Pro) - that's my whole problem :) > My mainboard is a dual Tyan athlon mb, so I guess our hardware configuration > is quite different. Indeed. -- Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] KT400 & AGP-4X (Radeon 9800 Pro)
The ati-drivers don't need "agpgart". The "fglrx" kernel module has that functionality built in. I have 9500pro and everything is working. If you can't get the ati-drivers to work, the "radeon" driver under X should get you a good resolution and refresh. My mainboard is a dual Tyan athlon mb, so I guess our hardware configuration is quite different. -Nathan -Original Message- From: Dennis Freise I posted this a while ago, but didn't get any helpful answer there... I've got an ASUS A7V8X mainboard, which has a KT400 chipset, and I've got a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card. I can't get this working with X and any other driver than the vesa-vga driver :( The problem is, that the agpgart-driver, which is needed for the ati-drivers, does not support agp3 (agp-4x) which is by default enabled in the Radeon-card. I googled _a lot_ to find any suggestions, and I found many ways to disable agp3 in the mainboards bios, but that's not what I want. I've got winxp on another partition, and that benifits from that mode, so I want to leave it enabled at least for that OS. I do not need 3d-acceleration under linux, but something more than 60 Hz on the x-desktop would be _really_ nice :) Now my question: Has anybody got this kind of hardware-combination running with any other (better) X-mode ? Which kernel do you use ? Which drivers do you use ? Greetings, Dennis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KT400 & AGP-4X (Radeon 9800 Pro)
begin quote On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:49:23 +0100 Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you Spider, that was also my first thought :) But at the time I > tried it (~2 month ago), the ati-drivers didn't support 2.6. I think > i'll give it another shot and have a look if there are new > (2.6-compatible) drivers out, or maybe the kernel itself now supports > the RV350 ? :) No clue there really.. . As usual.. "donate me the hardware and I'll dokument how to make it work" ;-) , The normal statement from me when somone has better hardware than I do ;) //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KT400 & AGP-4X (Radeon 9800 Pro)
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:33:34 +0100 Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I posted this a while ago, but didn't get any helpful answer there... > > I've > > got an ASUS A7V8X mainboard, which has a KT400 chipset, and I've got a > > ATI > > Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card. > > I can't get this working with X and any other driver than the vesa-vga > > driver :( The problem is, that the agpgart-driver, which is needed for > > the ati-drivers, does not support agp3 (agp-4x) which is by default > > enabled in the Radeon-card. > > I don't have a Radeon, but only lousy nvidia, however I have the same > mainboard, and can tell that kernel 2.6* supports agp 4x modes, which > should be what you want. > Give them a try. Thank you Spider, that was also my first thought :) But at the time I tried it (~2 month ago), the ati-drivers didn't support 2.6. I think i'll give it another shot and have a look if there are new (2.6-compatible) drivers out, or maybe the kernel itself now supports the RV350 ? :) -- Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KT400 & AGP-4X (Radeon 9800 Pro)
begin quote On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:13:02 +0100 "Dennis Freise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I posted this a while ago, but didn't get any helpful answer there... > I've > got an ASUS A7V8X mainboard, which has a KT400 chipset, and I've got a > ATI > Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card. > I can't get this working with X and any other driver than the vesa-vga > driver :( The problem is, that the agpgart-driver, which is needed for > the ati-drivers, does not support agp3 (agp-4x) which is by default > enabled in the Radeon-card. I don't have a Radeon, but only lousy nvidia, however I have the same mainboard, and can tell that kernel 2.6* supports agp 4x modes, which should be what you want. Give them a try. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] KT400 & AGP-4X (Radeon 9800 Pro)
Hi. I posted this a while ago, but didn't get any helpful answer there... I've got an ASUS A7V8X mainboard, which has a KT400 chipset, and I've got a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card. I can't get this working with X and any other driver than the vesa-vga driver :( The problem is, that the agpgart-driver, which is needed for the ati-drivers, does not support agp3 (agp-4x) which is by default enabled in the Radeon-card. I googled _a lot_ to find any suggestions, and I found many ways to disable agp3 in the mainboards bios, but that's not what I want. I've got winxp on another partition, and that benifits from that mode, so I want to leave it enabled at least for that OS. I do not need 3d-acceleration under linux, but something more than 60 Hz on the x-desktop would be _really_ nice :) Now my question: Has anybody got this kind of hardware-combination running with any other (better) X-mode ? Which kernel do you use ? Which drivers do you use ? Greetings, Dennis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
