Hi, I wonder if anyone happens to have any info on whether hardware acceleration should/can/does work on a Pundit-R? My laptop, which has an ATI 9200 Mobility, has hardware acceleration working fine. That kernel is 2.6.11.-gentoo-r6.
I have 3 Pundit-R's that I'm trying to get hardware acceleration working on but so far I cannot. I've double checked that I'm building the kernels the same way, but the Pundit-R kernels are a bit older - 2.6.11-gentoo-r3, so maybe I should update. The failure mode, or at least the first message in dmesg, seems to be: fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel. [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 144 MBytes. ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.12.10 [Apr 4 2005] on minor 0 [fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x00000000 (hardware caps of chipset) [fglrx:firegl_unlock] *ERROR* Process 5916 using kernel context 0 I'm using the agpgart module from the kernel. The machine has 256MB DRAM and, I believe, a 64MB AGP aperture although I'm not sure how to verify that. >From /var/log/Xorg.0.log I get these error messages: (EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENOMEM" (EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP To me this all looks like some problem with the AGP driver and the ATI chipset, not the graphics adapter, in the Pundit-R but that's a total guess on my part. The message seems to happen when agpgart is modprobed and before fglrx is loaded. I've found more than a few other postings on the net of people having this problem over time but no real solutions. I am modprobing first agpgart and then fglrx in /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6. Thanks in advance for any ideas. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
