Setting up Radeon 8500

[manly]

Hi,

 

I'm having problems setting up an 8500 for 3d acceleration. I've got the drivers from dri.sourceforge.net installed, and working for 2d. I've edited XF86Free-4 to the settings recomended in this post: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...&highlight=8500

 

I think the problem is that agpgart is not loading. I have added the force option to /etc/modules.conf. Here is the output of dmesg:

 

Linux agpgart interface v0.99 © Jeff Hartmann

agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M

agpgart: unsupported bridge

agpgart: no supported devices found.

[drm:radeon_cp_init] *ERROR* radeon_cp_init called without lock held

[drm:radeon_unlock] *ERROR* Process 2324 using kernel context 0

 

And glxinfo:

[ryan@ryan ryan]$ glxinfo

name of display: :0.0

display: :0 screen: 0

direct rendering: No

server glx vendor string: SGI

server glx version string: 1.2

server glx extensions:

GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context

client glx vendor string: SGI

client glx version string: 1.2

client glx extensions:

GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context

GLX extensions:

GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4

OpenGL extensions:

GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,

GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,

GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,

GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color,

GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,

GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,

GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias

glu version: 1.3

glu extensions:

GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

 

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav

id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat

----------------------------------------------------------------------

0x23 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None

0x24 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None

0x25 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None

0x26 24 tc 1 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None

0x27 24 dc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None

0x28 24 dc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None

0x29 24 dc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None

0x2a 24 dc 1 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None

 

Of course, DRI is not enabled :(.

 

Any help would be appreciated!

 

--Andrew

[fff]

Get the linux driver rpm from the ATI site (version 3.2.5) and you should be all set ...

 

FFF

[Germ]

in XF86Config-4 add this line:

Option  "agp_try_unsupported=1

 

To:

Section "Device"