ATI 9500Pro AGPGART confustion

jpc82 · Guru Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 326

I'm really confused about whats going on with my system.

I read over the ATI sticky and from reading it I thought that what I needed to do was to compile AGPGART as a module in the kernel. Then load AGPGART and radeon modules.

This is what I did, I compiled my kernel, and waited for my system to load. Once in KDE I typed modprobe agpgart.

this appeared at the bottom of dmesg

Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected Nvidia Nforce2 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000

This makes me think that AGPGART loaded fine, however when I type lsmod I get this

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
agpgart 14892 0 (unused)

What is going wrong? Is it loaded properly or not?

jhboricua · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 113

If it shows in lsmod, it is loaded.

jpc82 · Guru Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 326

but in lsmod it also says it unused, thats why I'm so confused

deathdruid · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 10:29 pm Post subject:

"Unused" means that no other module is using it yet. It is indeed loaded.

Once you "modprobe radeon", it should show up as used by one module.

jpc82 · Guru Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 326

ok, thanxs for the info.

One more question then.
I want to use the ati-drivers, so I merged then, however when I try to modprobe radeon I get.

Can't locate module radeon.

what is the name of the module ati-drivers creates?

deathdruid · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 5:29 pm Post subject: