Hello Billy,
Friday, January 21, 2005, 9:06:24 PM, you wrote:
BH> for Neverwinter Nights support also add this:
Can't find that at all anywhere in xorg.conf.
No, it has to be added (the option does not exist otherwise). There's even a message that says to do this at the end of the ati-drivers emerge. But it's not particularly relevant unless you play NWN, and certainly not to this specific issue afaik.
BH> lsmod
That gives...
gentoo root # lsmod Module Size Used by snd_pcm_oss 46756 1 snd_mixer_oss 16256 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss 29056 0 snd_seq_midi_event 6016 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 44688 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_via82xx 21408 2 snd_ac97_codec 66528 1 snd_via82xx snd_pcm 77960 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 19460 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 7428 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm gameport 3712 1 snd_via82xx snd_mpu401_uart 5760 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi 18848 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 6796 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd 44388 11 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device usbcore 98808 1 ntfs 100336 0 fat 35360 0 8139too 19840 0 mii 3968 1 8139too
And I followed your instructions to the letter.
Well, I don't see apgart (which one might not, if it's directly compiled into the kernel, and you have fglrx configured to use the external apgart), but more importantly, I don't see fglrx, which is always a module, and modules always appear in lsmod when loaded.
So fglrx is likely not loaded-- and should you ever get output from fglrxinfo, I would imagine that it will say the OpenGL renderer being used is MESA. In my experience means that the agp support for your motherboard's chipset is neither compiled into the kernel, nor loaded as a module. This is necessary for either apgart (the kernel's or the driver's) to load, since it enables the kernel to communicate with the agp slot in the first place. So after you select /dev/apgart support (either compiled in or as a module) in Device Drivers=>Character Devices, you should also select support for your motherboards specific chipset if listed, as these chipsets have "non-standard" communications protocols that the kernel needs to know to use.
If such support is compiled as a module, did you set it to load (along with fglrx) in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6? Fglrx won't load if the agpgart support isn't already present.
Hope this helps. Holly
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