radeon 9200

feardapenguin · Guru Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 414 Location: Texas

Hmmm... I went back into BIOS to see if this motherboard would let me change AGP from 8x to 4x. I don't have an obvious setting for that.

This board has an Award PnP BIOS. The only AGP options I see are:

Wedge_ · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:22 pm Post subject:

I think it might be worth trying a 2.6 kernel. I don't know if 2.4 properly supports AGP 8x, but 2.6 definitely should. It may also detect your chipset properly - 2.4 isn't from the looks of it, so that's why the agpgart module won't load. You could try loading fglrx on it's own and setting UseInternalAGPGART to "yes" and see if it'll work that way, but I'd doubt it.
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feardapenguin · Guru Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 414 Location: Texas

Yeah, I've tried everything you suggested to timop (including reverting ati-drivers back a version) but none have worked yet.

I won't worry about it for the moment. I'll take this box to 2.6 eventually but for now I'm just trying to get Gentoo fully installed (and optimized) on the new motherboard/CPU. For now that means starting with 2.4 (my previous kernel).

Thanks for the help and good job on getting timop going.

gearheadsmp · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 9:46 pm Post subject: How I did it with DRI

I got a Sapphire 9200 64mb, and I tried the ATI driver, the xfree-drm driver, and the DRI binary driver w/ xfree 4.3. So then I got to thinking, what if I upgraded to 4.3.99.12. DRI binary drivers would probably work with that, and I wouldn't have to do all that mucking around in CVS to get DRI to work from source. So I installed Xfree 4.3.99.x, and then I thought about how some of the 9200 XFree docs in the forums I read talked about using the 8500 PCI ID. I tried that. Didn't work. So then I tried the DRI R200 binary driver, which is what the 8500 series is (and what the 9000-9200 series is based off of). I got about 200fps more in glxgears with the R200 driver than with the normal DRI Radeon driver. To a total of about 2200 fps. So now I'm "happy as a clam", since the ATI drivers were locking up after doing OpenGL apps for several minutes (NWN 1.21 and XScreensaver specifically). And yes, I'm using MMX/SSE/3DNow! w/ my DRI Binary driver.
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feardapenguin · Guru Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 414 Location: Texas

I'd be happy to get 2200 fps, too. Were you using the stock XFree Radeon driver or the one off of the DRI site? I've never been able to get the default XFree radeon to give me better than 312 fps.

gearheadsmp · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:37 am Post subject: binary DRI

I was using the Binary DRI drivers.
R200 DRI binary driver
Radeon DRI binary driver

Not the ones you get from CVS - just the ones in the binary tar.bz2 package that you run the install.sh script to auto-compile (I got SSE/MMX/3DNow! to compile into mine).

Be sure to post if you can't get them to work this way.
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feardapenguin · Guru Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 414 Location: Texas

For posterity (and the benefit of anyone else with this issue) it appears that the Via chipset (AGP) on the Shuttle AV49N motherboard is not supported by gentoo-sources-2.4. I've run across a couple of other posts from folks having the same issue with the Via.

Someone mentioned that mm-sources supports the Via.