Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon Issues

[Philip W. <pg...@do...>]

Sunday, Gareth Hughes wrote:

>John Tobin wrote:
>>
>> I posted earlier about not getting my Radeon to work at all in Linux. I
>> have now gotten it to at least load the server. I have to have "Option
>> NoAccel" in my XF86Config though so I can't use DRI. If I don't have the
>> option selected X will hard lock the system.
>> My system configuration is as follows:
>> AMD Athlon 650
>> FIC SD11 MB
>> AMD 751 Northbridge
>> VIA 686A Southbridge
>> 256MB PC100 SDRAM
>> 10 and 15 GB IDE HDDs
>> SB Live
>> ATI Radeon DDR 32MB
>
>Try, for instance, running it with acceleration but without the radeon
>kernel module loaded to force the DRI init to fail (if you haven't
>already done so).  Is the 751 an Irongate chipset?  Is this officially
>supported by the agpgart module?

Yes, and yes.  Well, it works for me... (AGP not radeon)

>If you can get it to start, the next step will be to get it to start
>with basic 2D accel (no 3D).  Let us know how you go.
>
>-- Gareth
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Regards,

Philip Willoughby