Video Card Problem

[carlosponti]

i have been trying to get my video card 3d drivers working and i noticed an error at boot up but could never find it i did however found where i get this error in some log

agpgart: unable to determine aperture size.

can anyone help me?

i have a MSI KT6V with a Via KT600 chipset and an ATI 9000 Pro

[carlosponti]

bump

[LinuxBox420]

Did you compile your kernel yourself or are you using the default 2.4.29 kernel? It sounds like your kernel isn't configured for the VIA chip.

[carlosponti]

yes i used the precompiled kernel. do i have to configure my kernel or can i install the precompiled 2.26 kernel. what are my options?

what would i have to do to configure for a Via KT600 chipset for the AGPGart to work with it?

[borromini]

Have you configured X? AFAIK aperture size is set in the bios... But I could be wrong . Anyway, if you've configured X, you should've set the amount of memory your graphics card has.

[carlosponti]

i know apeture size is set in the bios because i set it when i was working on performance tuning my vid card. but configuring X really doesnt come into play with the AGPGart not starting which i have read is due to KT600 chipset however i havent well until this thread why that was.

[carlosponti]

does this sound right? i did some reading and it maybe that the 2.24 kernel is not working with the KT600 chipsets and that i need to switch to the 2.26.5 kernel.

[bigtomrodney]

The 2.6 kernel has much better hardware support than the 2.4 kernel in my experience. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was the case.

[espiesior]

This ati product is fairly well supported by the DRI drivers.

How to install DRI:
**Compile kernel with:
Loadable Modules support
>*Enable Module Loading
-->*Enable Module unloading
Device Drivers
>Character Devices
-->*/dev/agpgart support
----->*Intel 440LX...
----->*Intel i865...
----->*ATI chipset
----->*Via (if available)???
-->*Direct Rendering Manager
----->*ATI Radeon
>Graphics support
-->*ATi Radeon (NEW) (don't check the old driver.... you won't need it)


**Compile [CVS] Mesa... freedesktop.org, mesa3d.sf.net
**Compile [CVS] Xorg... freedesktop.org, x.org
**Do xorgconfig
.... follow along with all the options
Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
In Modules section add
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Here is how a device section should look:
Section "Device"
Identifier "radeon"
Driver "radeon"
VideoRam 65536
ChipId 0x514D
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection


Add the following section at the end:
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection


startx and you should be ready.