Re: [Dri-users] R200 drivers for Radeon 8500LE

[TonyX <to...@be...>]

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From: "Daniel Herring" <dhe...@ew...>
To: "TonyX" <to...@be...>
Cc: <Dri...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Dri-users] R200 drivers for Radeon 8500LE


> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, TonyX wrote:
> ...
> > I also have to recompile and install the module drivers for this to work
> > everytime I boot into Linux or my system will alert me, in the
> > XFree86.0.log, that AGP is disabled, even though it's there and works.
> ...
>
> I'm not sure about your other problems, but this sounds like a module
> loading problem.  After rebooting, run "lsmod" as root to make sure the
> AGP module is loaded...  Some boot scripts do not automatically load it,
> but the DRI install script does.
>
> You probably need to add a "/sbin/modprobe agpgart" or "/sbin/insmod
> agpgart" line somewhere.  (I'm running Slackware; so I'm not exactly sure
> what RedHat does.)
>
> Hope that helps,
> Daniel Herring

I'll keep that in mind when I boot into Linux later. Other than that, and
the other problems in my original email, the drivers make my system work
better than they've worked before!

Are there any updated drivers that I may need to know about that might
improve performance?


TonyX


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