Missing /dev/agpgart

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:07:34PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:18:29 +0200
> Alberto Rizzi <greenant at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > Norberto Meijome ha scritto:
> > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:44:12 +0200
> > > Alberto Rizzi <greenant at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> I have a motherboard with a via PT880 and an agp video card Radeon 9600XT
> > >>
> > >> I'm using 6-STABLE with "device agp" in the kernel configuration file
> > >> but the system doesn't create /dev/agpgart device
> > > 
> > > Hi Alberto,
> > > have you loaded radeon.ko ?
> > > 
> > Now radeon and drm are compiled in the kernel. But I have the same
> > problem also if radeon and drm are dynamic modules.
> 
> loading the modules would have done the same as building into it, with
> no build time :)
> 
> sorry, I don't know ... so you still dont get any information about
> the card in dmesg and pciconf still shows the card as none: ... ?

The latest chip that is supported by radeon & drm for 3D accelleration
is the 9250 aka RV 280. The 9600 is much newer. It is only supported in
2D by Xorg's radeon driver. See radeon(4):

       RV360       Radeon 9600XT (2d only)

Roland
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