Re: fglrx driver problems
Why not use the fglrx package, It works fine on my Radeon 9600
Sjoerd
Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hello Marko.
>
> Marko Randjelovic, 03.01.2007 11:14:
>> Mathias Brodala wrote:
>>>> DESCRIPTION radeon is an Xorg driver for ATI RADEON based video
>>>> cards. It
>>>> contains […] hardware 3D acceleration (experimental on R300 and R400
>>>> series
>>>> cards),
>>>>
>>> (From the radeon manpage.)
>>>
>>> My Radeon 9600 has an RV350 chip.
>>>
>> And also from the same man page:
>>
>> RV350 Radeon 9600PRO/9600SE/9600, M10/M11, FireGL T2 (2D only)
>>
>> (no mention of 9550).
>
> Seems like, but your 9550 should have a R300 chip and should be supported.
>
>>> What’s the
>>> Xorg.0.log
>>> contents using the radeon driver?
>>>
>> I attached the file. As I can see from it, my card is detected as "ATI
>> Radeon 9600 AS (AGP)" and DRI cannot be activated because AGP is not
>> available.
>>
>> (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
>> (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
>
> The line after this is interesting:
>
>> (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module
>> is loaded before the radeon kernel module.
>
> Is this module loaded? If it is not, then adding it to /etc/modules might be enough.
>
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