Chuck Shirley wrote: >On Wednesday 30 January 2002 22:12, Neuromancer wrote: > >>Thus spake Chuck Shirley about Life, the Universe, and Everything: >>| [root@localhost chas]# mknod -m 660 agpgart c 10 379 >> >>Isn't it 10, 175? >> > >Yes it is! (But, strangely enough, it is listed on line 379 of >/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt... In any case, it did >not work (10, 175) ( I reconstructed what I typed by grepping the >devices file, and typed the line Nr. rather than the minor Nr. :o ) > Try two things:
1) Make sure you have an IRQ assigned to VGA card in your BIOS (AGP needs it) 2) Somewhere in groups I read that for this chipset, you should use agp_try_unsupported switch. I don't remember details, just try to search http://groups.google.com or look at the archives at http://dri.sourceforge.net. You may also find some useful info at http://gatos.sourceforge.net (I use their ati.2 drivers and they work great). Michal
