Radeon HD 4650 AGP

[mr_marmalade]

Hi, I've just bought a Gigabyte Radeon HD 4650 AGP as my previous AGP card died & this card looked pretty good. I've managed to get it working with the Gigabyte drivers in Windows & I've managed to get into X in Debian Lenny after 'dexconfig' created a rather vanilla xorg.conf & now i can get to the desktop (I don't know what driver its actually using). I was wrestling with trying to get either the non-free repo Lenny ATI drivers installed or the 9.7 Catalyst ones from AMD's website, but so far no success.

The furthest I got was point 6 on this guide:

http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary#Lenny.2CSqueeze

But I encountered an error as follows when modprobing the fglrx module:

Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686-bigmem/nonfree/fglrx/fglrx.ko) : Cannot allocate memory.

My system is an Athlon X2 4200+, MSI Neo2 Platinum mobo, 4Gb Ram, dual-boot with WinXP.

I've found that my carg is somewhat odd in that its AGP & I don't think the drivers from AMD's website work for Windows even, hence I'm sticking to the Gigabyte-suppied ones for now. Is the 4650 AGP an absolute no-go in Linux at this time, or is Linux not so concerned with the socket-type? Any ideas?

Thanks! :)

[legume]

I haven't really got a clue what causes that error, it may be your card isn't supported or it may be some other reason.

There may be some extra info in /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log.

I have an AGP HD3850 and with my mobo, it won't work properly with fglrx or the OSS drivers unless I set the AGP Aperture size in the bios to 256.

3D support is coming along with the OSS drivers and your card should already get accelerated 2D and xv. If by chance it is not supported, then someone can just add the pcid

If you ever really need to try different drivers in windows, then try the drivers here (I know they don't list 4xxx, but they may work, if not now, in the future).

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/CatalystAGPHotfix.aspx