Rob Lofland wrote:
> Well I have a motherboard with an AMD 761 and Radeon 32 MB DDR. I've
> compiled and installed 2.4.10 about a dozen times and I've installed X 4.1.0
> about the same and I have never gotten them to run correctly. You might get
> 2D but no 3D accel. The release notes for 2.4.10 show that some specific
> fixes for AMD 761 agpgart support have gone in but unless you have more free
> time than I do to fool around with it, I'd wait for a 2.4.10 distro to come
> out. Maybe that will work. SuSE 7.3 is supposed to have it in mid-October.
>
> Rob
>
Maybe because I've got an AMD 751 and Radeon AIW 32MB DDR it was quite easy
to upgrade to linux 2.4.10 and XFree 4.1.0. I've got 2D AND 3D accel. (but X
tells me that
the radeon driver doesn't support 32bpp. Going with 24 instead)
a lspci -vv (as root) tells:
--------------------------------
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5144
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 02aa
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+
SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (2000ns min), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Region 1: I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
Status: RQ=47 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2
Command: RQ=15 SBA+ AGP+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x2
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Here's my XF86Config-4
-------------------------------
# XFree86 4.0 configuration
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
# By default, Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use xfs
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
# Module loading section
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-buffering
Load "GLcore" # OpenGL support
Load "drm"
Load "dri" # Direct rendering infrastructure
Load "glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface
Load "extmod" # Misc. required extensions
Load "v4l" # Video4Linux
Load "pex5" # PHIGS for X 3D environment (obsolete)
Load "record" # X event recorder
Load "xie" # X Image Extension (obsolete)
# You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs.
# Load "freetype" # TrueType font handler
# Load "type1" # Adobe Type 1 font handler
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "CPD-E500E"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30 - 109
VertRefresh 48 - 160
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Option "noaccel"
Option "AGPMode4x"
Identifier "ATI Radeon"
Driver "ati"
BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Radeon0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Radeon"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
# BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
# Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Linux Frame Buffer"
Driver "fbdev"
BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Radeon0"
Monitor "CPD-E500E"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1152x864" "800x600"
EndSubSection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "800x600"
EndSubSection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1152x864"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Hope that helps.
Pierre
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