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STeeLGuT
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 Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 12:45 am Post subject: ati mobility m6 ... can it work or not? |
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| I have been trying and trying, and reading and reading this site. For the life of me I cannot get my video card to work with X. Can anyone give me pointers. I have tried every way that I could find on this site. Recompiled my kernel like 10 times. I don't want to give up, but my head is going to explode soon... |
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steveb
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 12:47 am Post subject: |
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post the content of you xfree config file. and post what kind of hardware you have (all of it). and post the output of lspci -v -v
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steveb
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:22 am Post subject: |
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i have an m3 in my thinkpad and have xfree set up to use another module for my card, then you have: | Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Rage 128 Mobility LF"
#VideoRam 8192
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection |
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steveb
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| STeeLGuT wrote: | https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=131282
I posted it before...an earlier topic...thanks for taking a look |
btw: if you posted it before, then why did you open again an new message for the same problem?
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STeeLGuT
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| sorry. no one responded. I guess I could have edited the subject. |
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steveb
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:34 am Post subject: |
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| STeeLGuT wrote: | | sorry. no one responded. I guess I could have edited the subject. |
if you post to much messages (new ones) wich are all about the same problem and then you expect the reader of you message/help request/whatever to be able to link all those messages together (because they depend on each other), then the chance to get help is not very big.
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stgreek
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You are not supposed to load the radeon module in the kernel. Make sure you completely remove it from kernel, along with DRI/DRM support. Only agpgart should be loaded as a module. Then emerge xfree-drm using
VIDEO_CARDS='radeon' emerge xfree-drm
This should create the radeon.o module. Do not load this at boot (you SHOULD load agpgart though), X gets it from XF86Config and loads it when it starts.
Did this process about 5 mins ago for a fresh install on my laptop, worked fine. After you get it working, try to enable AGP pageflip mode, gives huge performance increase (about 50% on mine).
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STeeLGuT
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:36 am Post subject: |
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| thanks stgrrek, I will give it a shot. |
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