No ATI 3d?

[phunni]

Hopefully not being patronising here, but you did restart X didn't you? You don't need to wait for the next version of mandriva - this can be made to work. What happens if you type

modprobe -r agpgart
modprobe agpgart

? Hopefully you should see no output from either command. Essentially agpgart is a module in the drivers, but it never seems to work. There is the same module built into the kernel (I hope it's in the mandriva one...) which works much better...

Edited September 14, 2005 by phunni

[erpe]

Hopefully not being patronising here, but you did restart X didn't you?  You don't need to wait for the next version of mandriva - this can be made to work.  What happens if you type

modprobe -r agpgart
modprobe agpgart

?  Hopefully you should see no output from either command.  Essentially agpgart is a module in the drivers, but it never seems to work.  There is the same module built into the kernel (I hope it's in the mandriva one...) which works much better...

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I rebooted X. The commands give me the following:

 

bash: modprobe: command not found

 

Thanks for your help it is appreciated!

Edited September 14, 2005 by erpe

[ianw1974]

Type su and supply root password when prompted.

 

Then try the modprobe command again. It's normally only runnable when using root privileges.

[erpe]

Ok now i feel stupid :D In root i get the follwoing results:

 

modprobe -r agpgart

FATAL: Module agpgart is in use.

 

modprobe agpgart

Nothing

[ianw1974]

The agpgart is in use as you have sis-agp loaded, which is the module for your graphics card, or at least that's what I think it's currently using. That's why you're having problems unloading it.

 

You can test this quite easily, su and root password first, then type:

 

lsmod | grep agpgart

 

and post back the results.....

[erpe]

I get: "agpgart 28264 1 sis-agp'

[Guest china1922]

After over a year of trying, I finally got the ATI drivers installed thanks to this thread

and this one:

 

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/sh...threadid=361450

 

Thank-you

 

This is what I did to get the kernel and kernel-source to be the same:

 

in Konsole: typed 'su' then typed the root password

 

typed 'uname -r' (mine read "2.6.11-6mdk")

 

I then went to the Mandriva Control Center and clicked on the ' (-) look at installed software...'

 

in the search box, I typed in 'kernel-source'

 

my 'kernel-source' was "2.6.11-12mdk"...(different from 'uname -r')...so I uninstalled the 'kernel-source' by selecting it and clicking 'remove'

 

I then exited ' (-) look at installed software...' and clicked on ' (+) look at installable software...'

 

in the search box I typed in 'kernel-source', found the correct kernel-source in the list that came up (2.6.11-6mdk), highlighted it and clicked 'install'

 

I then modified the directions a little from the linuxquestions.org link and somehow got the ATI drivers installed!!

[erpe]

Thanks for the help!