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Sappling
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 Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:54 am Post subject: [Solved]ATI AGP Init Problem |
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I am currently trying to get my ATI graphics card drivers setup. I followed the ATI FAQ provided here, http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html due reciving to the "xf86_ENODEV"' error. To wich I added module support for my AGP controller(nVidia_AGP) via kernel menuconfig and probemod ,and making sure the module loaded before fglrx. Also making sure the AMD64_AGP module was also running.
Despite all this I still got the error ("xf86_ENODEV"'). This problem seems to be specific to AMD64 proc's and I believe that the motherboard AGP chipset must be nForce 3 or K8,K8N... If this is the case after doing the above I assume if you enter:
| Code: | | MSHOME linux # dmesg | grep -i agp |
You will receive the following:
| Code: | Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0
agpgart: Setting up Nforce3 AGP.
agpgart: aperture base > 4G
[fglrx] Internal AGP is not supported in 2.6 kernel. |
And so the problem is in the aperture size. After asking around on IRC some light was shined upon this issue. I was lead to this url: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6350 Which is where most of my knowledge is based upon. After reading this you can either degrade your BIOS to a certain version depending on your mobo OR added the patch to the kernel.
I have not yet done any of the following, but will comment on the method that worked for me. The reason I am creating this thread is I believe it has not been discussed in this forum, but I my searching cold be sloppy and I could be wrong. Despite this I hope this can help people in the similar boat as the person on IRC was looking for a fix for 14 months or so. I ALSO hope this might direct attention to this problem and perhaps a SOLID fix for it. Not just a hack...
Anyways if anything I have said here is wrong, please correct it for others. Post with your fix if you have had this problem.
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Sappling
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:41 am Post subject: |
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Well just like everyone to know I am a ATI-driver survior. After two days of troubleshooting I have finaly fixed everything and it feels good. I used the patch 9379 to fix this issue, followed by rebuilding the kernel. I also used this in my xorg.conf to fix AIGLX errors.
| Code: | Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection |
TOMORROW THE WORLD! 
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Sappling ~ # glxgears
14032 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2797.289 FPS |
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