nforce2 and non-NVIDIA video cards

PriSM · 12-06-03, 09:03 PM

Hi!

I've been trying to solve this problem for a quite long time, but still, I got no solution.

I installed Mandrake 9.2, just to see how it works. On my personal machine (Athlon XP with GF2MX-200, KT400) everything went just fine and there are no problems with hardware 3D acceleration. Great!

Problems started when I tried to set up a machine on NForce2 with an ATI card (Radeon 9200).
What i did:
- installed NForce2 drivers. I did not patch the kernel, because I use 2.4.22-21mdk and I realised that this patch is already applied.
- installed fresh fglrx drivers from ATI site (rpm package, installed with --force), ran fglrxconfig, set all up.
Everything seems to be OK, card works in X, but after typing fglrxinfo I still see:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4

Quite weird, according to the generated XF86Config-4:
BusID "PCI:2:0:0" # vendor=1002, device=5961
Screen 0

Of course 3D acceleration doesn't work, no fancy Tuxracer sliding :(
What I did wrong? Is it a bug in NVidia NForce patch, ATI linux driver, both, or maybe something I missed?

Thanks in advance.

galaxor · 12-07-03, 11:14 AM

Hi,

1. install the fglrx-driver rpm
2. compile the fglrx.o kernel module
3. load your kernel's agpgart module (with nforce2-support)
4. edit your XF86Config-4:

Section "Device"
[...]
Driver "fglrx"
[...]
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
[...]
EndSection

be sure to set UseInternalAGPGART to "no"!

If something goes wrong try to compile a vanilla 2.4.23 kernel.

12-06-03, 09:03 PM	#1
PriSM Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1	nforce2 and non-NVIDIA video cards Hi! I've been trying to solve this problem for a quite long time, but still, I got no solution. I installed Mandrake 9.2, just to see how it works. On my personal machine (Athlon XP with GF2MX-200, KT400) everything went just fine and there are no problems with hardware 3D acceleration. Great! Problems started when I tried to set up a machine on NForce2 with an ATI card (Radeon 9200). What i did: - installed NForce2 drivers. I did not patch the kernel, because I use 2.4.22-21mdk and I realised that this patch is already applied. - installed fresh fglrx drivers from ATI site (rpm package, installed with --force), ran fglrxconfig, set all up. Everything seems to be OK, card works in X, but after typing fglrxinfo I still see: display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4 Quite weird, according to the generated XF86Config-4: BusID "PCI:2:0:0" # vendor=1002, device=5961 Screen 0 Of course 3D acceleration doesn't work, no fancy Tuxracer sliding :( What I did wrong? Is it a bug in NVidia NForce patch, ATI linux driver, both, or maybe something I missed? Thanks in advance.

12-07-03, 11:14 AM	#2
galaxor ATI Radeon, A7N8X-Dx Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 20	Hi, 1. install the fglrx-driver rpm 2. compile the fglrx.o kernel module 3. load your kernel's agpgart module (with nforce2-support) 4. edit your XF86Config-4: Section "Device" [...] Driver "fglrx" [...] Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no" [...] EndSection be sure to set UseInternalAGPGART to "no"! If something goes wrong try to compile a vanilla 2.4.23 kernel.