Radeon 9700/fglrx wont load, cant figure it out [solved]

swooshOnLn · Last edited by swooshOnLn on Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:09 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello. I have an ATI Radeon 9700, and I have really no idea how to set it up. I have read that there is not alot of support for the "r300" series, or whatever. I am trying to get fglrx to load, but i get the following errors in my dmesg:

swooshOnLn · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:31 am Post subject:

*bump*
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swooshOnLn · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject:

*bump* again, any help please?
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Wedge_ · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:18 pm Post subject:

Do you have AGP support enabled in your kernel?

Edit: OK, it sounds like you do, but are you sure the fglrx module is compiled against your current running kernel? You can just run emerge ati-drivers again to make sure.
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D2T · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject:

I just got done getting my 9700 to work on my Gentoo PC and I had that same problem (among others).

I will try to remember to post my kernel and Xorg config files when I get home. I'd rather wait til then than try to tell you what I did. I went through so many different iterations I'm not sure which one I ended up with

swooshOnLn · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject:

WEdge, I have "emerge[ed] ati-drivers" many times, and I have never changed my kernel so that ati-drivers whouldnt compile against it. D2T, I await your awnser, haha
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akb · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject:

bump

i got the exactly same problem, but with a ati radeon x600
btw... i got a pcie system, but already tried to fix it by enabling agp support, nothing changed...

swooshOnLn · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:20 pm Post subject:

hey, akb, I fixed the problem with "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ati-drivers". If you want to start a new thread and try that out ill help you set yours up. I dont think ull get much help in this one :-p
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akb · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:26 am Post subject:

thx, i already got it a few minutes before :-)

my problem was that i hadnt updated my kernel correctly after recompiling it *shame on me*
but there's another problem i am on... so if this one isnt that easy to solve i will start a new thread about it.

olger901 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 625

Make sure you have enabled AGPGart in your kernel and also selected the correct AGP Gart module for your chipset.

akb · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject:

well, i dont HAVE agp... i have a notebook with pci express... but needed to load the agpgart module anyway to get the fglrx loading. i'll try something more now... ttyl