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Joined: 19 Jun 2003
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Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
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 Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 5:22 pm Post subject: Once and for all... 3D - Radeon 9500 Pro |
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There are so many conflicting posts on these forums it's starting to confuse me a bit.
I'm trying to get 3D Acceleration to work in Gentoo...
I have a motherboard with the Via P4X400 chipset, which is the Pentium 4 equivilent of the KT400 chipset for AMD processors.
I had gentoo-sources as my kernel, and it simply did not support my chipset..
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agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset (device id: 3168), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1.
agpgart: no supported devices found.
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So, instead, I tried gs-sources, which was recommended to me by a friend of mine who said KT400 AGP worked in it for him. So, I got gs-sources...
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agpgart: Detected Via Apollo P4X400 chipset
agpgart: unable to determine aperture size.
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...and it doesn't work.
This is using the modules included with the kernel.
So, what can I do? I haven't played a game in while thanks to this problem, and I'm have withdrawals. |
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Garbz
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
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there may be a way to specify the aprature size manually, or there may be a bug in the bios.
I might suggest flash to the most recent driver for your motherboard and try again, alternativly seek out someone who knows more about this than i do and try to specify the settings it can't automatically determin.
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| I said 'Fck it' and cut the traces on pins A3 and A11, which forces it into AGP4X mode. Now, it works beautifully. |
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