I apologize for answering my own post, but looking at lspci I note that this is an ATI 9100 IGP if it make a difference.
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP Thanks, Mark On 6/21/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I wonder if anyone happens to have any info on whether hardware > acceleration should/can/does work on a Pundit-R? My laptop, which has > an ATI 9200 Mobility, has hardware acceleration working fine. That > kernel is 2.6.11.-gentoo-r6. > > I have 3 Pundit-R's that I'm trying to get hardware acceleration > working on but so far I cannot. I've double checked that I'm building > the kernels the same way, but the Pundit-R kernels are a bit older - > 2.6.11-gentoo-r3, so maybe I should update. > > The failure mode, or at least the first message in dmesg, seems to be: > > fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, > Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel. > [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 144 MBytes. > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 > [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.12.10 [Apr 4 2005] on minor 0 > [fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x00000000 (hardware caps of chipset) > [fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 5916 using kernel context 0 > > I'm using the agpgart module from the kernel. The machine has 256MB > DRAM and, I believe, a 64MB AGP aperture although I'm not sure how to > verify that. > > From /var/log/Xorg.0.log I get these error messages: > > (EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENOMEM" > (EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP > > To me this all looks like some problem with the AGP driver and the ATI > chipset, not the graphics adapter, in the Pundit-R but that's a total > guess on my part. The message seems to happen when agpgart is > modprobed and before fglrx is loaded. I've found more than a few other > postings on the net of people having this problem over time but no > real solutions. > > I am modprobing first agpgart and then fglrx in > /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6. > > Thanks in advance for any ideas. > > Cheers, > Mark > -- [email protected] mailing list
