ATI 9600 HELP!!!! please

[bruce32466]

I have a fresh install of gentoo and am trying to set up xorg. I am having a HELL OF A TIME!! with this dam ati fglrx and was wondering if some one would point me in the right direction. For all I know I might not even be posting in the right place.

The errors are:
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
(EE) fglrx(0): Failed to initialize ASIC in kernel.
(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] Failed to get AGP mode!
(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP
(EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized.
(EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to open CMMQS connection.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): Cannot register with ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.CkConnector.Error: Unable to open session: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

waiting for X server to shut down X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"

My lspci reads:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600] (Secondary)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
02:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)



Anyway, a little help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Bruce.

[suacy]

I don't know if this helps, but I have the same card and X fails to start up with 8.11, with similar errors to yours. I think the same is true for 8.12, but I am not sure. 8.10 works great, though.

[bruce32466]

Sorry to be such a noob but when you say 8.11 or 8.10, are you referring to the version of fglrx? Maybe the question should be: Is there a good book that someone completely new to this could read to help get a handle on this kind of thing?

Thanks for the reply by the way.

[Kano]

The gfx cards is:

lspci -nn|grep 0300

the way you showed it you don't the the pci id.

[adamk]

Did you compile the necessary agp support for your chipset when you built your kernel? What's the output of 'dmesg | grep agp'? Does /dev/agpgart exist on your system?

Adam

[bruce32466]

Thanks. The output of lspci -nn|grep 0300 is:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600] [1002:4152] which would be the pci id here just for future reference?

Output of dmesg |grep agp is: nothing zero nada!

Did not see a /dev/agpgart.

So I guess I could take away from this that I don't have agp compiled into the kernel.

[adamk]

That seems pretty likely, yes.

Try 'sudo modprobe intel_agp' and see if that gives you any errors.

Adam

[Kano]

1002:4152 is the pci id, ATI=1002, your card is 4152. That ID is in the fglrx driver. It should work when the kernel is properly configured. You need AGP support

CONFIG_AGP=m
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m

[bruce32466]

I'm sorry to say, I'm at work at the moment. But I did recompile the kernel with agp support <M> and intel_agp <M> before I left to work. So I will be able to continue this when I get home at about 4:00 pm pst. You guys are great! thanks for helping me out.

Bruce.

[bruce32466]

Well, I now see agpgart in /dev directory and my dmesg|grep agp now shows agp suport but now when I exit X the monitor goes black and will not return to a prompt. I tried ctrl alt backspace and that doesn't do anything. not sure where to look from here.

Thanks,
Bruce.