I have been having no end of problems trying to get my ATI 9000 Pro video card going and I think I have discovered the problem. I have been trying some different kernels to see if that changed anything. Using "make menuconfig" and "make xconfig" from a GUI in the kernel's source directory, I found the following information:
This part is under the "Character devices" section, ______________________________________________________________ /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) (AGP) AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is a bus system mainly used to connect graphics cards to the rest of the system. If you have an AGP system and you say Y here, it will be possible to use the AGP features of your 3D rendering video card. This code acts as a sort of "AGP driver" for the motherboard's chipset. If you need more texture memory than you can get with the AGP GART (theoretically up to 256 MB, but in practice usually 64 or 128 MB due to kernel allocation issues), you could use PCI accesses and have up to a couple gigs of texture space. Note that this is the only means to have XFree4/GLX use write-combining with MTRR support on the AGP bus. Without it, OpenGL direct rendering will be a lot slower but still faster than PIO. You should say Y here if you use XFree86 3.3.6 or 4.x and want to use GLX or DRI. If unsure, say N. This driver is available as a module. If you want to compile it as a module, say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module will be called agpgart. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under that section is code for various chipset support and here is my chipset for my ASUS P4S533 motherboard, ______________________________________________________________ SiS chipset support (AGP_SIS) This option gives you AGP support for the GLX component of XFree86 4.x on Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] chipsets. Note that 5591/5592 AGP chipsets are NOT supported. You should say Y here if you use XFree86 3.3.6 or 4.x and want to use GLX or DRI. If unsure, say N. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And of course the AGP chipset on my ASUS P4S533 (SiS645DX) motherboard is precisely the 5592/5592 AGP chipset. I found that information in KDE's Control Center under Information -> PCI. Note that I have tried the following kernels and they all say this, 2.4.18-14, 2.4.20, 2.4.21, 2.5.72. Can anyone confirm that this would render ATI's or anyone elses ATI drivers unusable for my 9000 Pro ATI video card and indeed any AGP card? If so, my hearty apologies to ATI, XFree86 and anybody else who suffered my indignation over not being able to apply the drivers after so much work. I really would like some independent confirmation that this is in fact the problem. Anybody have an experience with or knowledge of this? Paul _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
