FC2 & 9200SE

[Astarte Design]

I had trouble with them, but got it working with a stock kernel. FC
2.6.6-1.435 seems work.

I was installing RAID as well and did a bit of a blog as I went:
http://www.astarte.net.au/dp/fc2iteraidblog.txt

Cheers,

Dave

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Subject: Re: FC2 & 9200SE

On Jun 23, 2004 at 09:59, Frederic Haziza in a soothing rage wrote:

>Craig Tinson wrote:
>> Anyone got this combo to work?
>> 
>> Have downloaded the ATI drivers.. (after a dist-upgrade) but they won't
>> build against the 2.6.6-1.435 kernel.. even with the patches that I've
>> found mentioned.. the patches seem to be related to the 405 version of 
>> 2.6.6
>
>Download from Kernel.org, and compile it yourself.
>I've found kernel 2.6.6-1.422 as an RPM, but to get the ATI driver to work
you
>need to tweak a little the kernel. So I suggest you compile it yourself
>following those steps :
>
>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=985543#post98
5543
>
>I didn't use any patches...

[07:43:41][work]$ uname -a
Linux mach3.at.home 2.6.6-1.435 #1 Mon Jun 14 09:09:07 EDT 2004 
i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

[07:44:45][RPMS]$ rpm -q fglrx
fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0

[07:46:38][RPMS]$ /sbin/lspci
[...]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 
9200] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] 
(Secondary) (rev 01)

[07:48:05][RPMS]$ dmesg
[...]
fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, 
Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1900 
MBytes.
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 3.9.0 [May 11 2004] on minor 0
mtrr: 0xd0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xd0000000,0x400000
[fglrx:firegl_addmap] *ERROR* mtrr allocation failed (-22)
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1900 
MBytes.
Fire GL built-in AGP-support
Based on agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 1919M
agpgart: Detected a Via Apollo KT400 chipset in AGP v2 compat mode at 
0000:00:00.0
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo KT400 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
Power management callback for AGP chipset installed
[fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState   = 0x1f000a1b (hardware caps of 
chipset)
AGP: Found 2 AGPv3 devices
AGP: Doing enable for AGPv3
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device.
[fglrx] AGP enabled,  AgpCommand = 0x1f000312 (selected caps)
[fglrx] free  AGP = 54800384
[fglrx] max   AGP = 54800384
[fglrx] free  LFB = 109080576
[fglrx] max   LFB = 109080576
[fglrx] free  Inv = 0
[fglrx] max   Inv = 0
[fglrx] total Inv = 0
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB  = 0
[fglrx] total AGP = 16384

So as you see, I have had a different experience. I also have
the fglrx-3.9.0-fc2.patch applied.

N.Emile...
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