Update of the situation: - Debian woody (stable). - Radeon 9200 SE card (two of them).
Machine 1: - MSI motherboard (SiS 730 chipset). Works with XFree86-4.3.0-0pre1v5 from: http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xfree86/woody/ (in fact there still remain the bug #225759 that can be avoided forcing the chip ID) Machine 2: - Asus A7V8X-X motherboard (Via KT400 chipset). Needs kernel 2.6.0 for proper AGP3 support. I installed this kernel (with updated packages modutils and module-init-tools, taken from: http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/...) and XFree86-4.3.0-0pre1v5. Now the kernel messages look good: ... Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected VIA KT400/KT400A/KT600 chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000 ... [drm] Initialized radeon 1.9.0 20020828 on minor 0 agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode [drm] Loading R200 Microcode ... And the xserver messages look good too: ... (**) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon 8500 BB (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4242) (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xe8000000 (--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xd7000000 (--) RADEON(0): BIOS at 0xe7fe0000 (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM) ... drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 5, (OK) drmGetBusid returned '' (II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0" (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xf88c6000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xf88c6000 to 0x4843b000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xe8000000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (II) RADEON(0): [agp] Mode 0x1f000a09 [AGP 0x1106/0x3189; Card 0x1002/0x5964] (II) RADEON(0): [agp] 8192 kB allocated with handle 0x00000001 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] ring handle = 0xf0000000 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] Ring mapped at 0x4843d000 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] ring read ptr handle = 0xf0101000 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] Ring read ptr mapped at 0x4853e000 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] vertex/indirect buffers handle = 0xf0102000 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] Vertex/indirect buffers mapped at 0x4853f000 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP texture map handle = 0xf0302000 (II) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP Texture map mapped at 0x4873f000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] register handle = 0xd7000000 (II) RADEON(0): [dri] Visual configs initialized (II) RADEON(0): CP in BM mode (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 MB AGP aperture (II) RADEON(0): Using 1 MB for the ring buffer (II) RADEON(0): Using 2 MB for vertex/indirect buffers (II) RADEON(0): Using 5 MB for AGP textures (II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (2048,8191) (II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1536) to (2048,1538) (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 2048 x 6653 (II) RADEON(0): Will use back buffer at offset 0x1800000 (II) RADEON(0): Will use depth buffer at offset 0x1e00000 (II) RADEON(0): Will use 94208 kb for textures at offset 0x2400000 (II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) ... (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled (==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) RADEON(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1538) (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 2048 x 6649 (II) RADEON(0): X context handle = 0x00000001 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Added 32 65536 byte vertex/indirect buffers (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Mapped 32 vertex/indirect buffers (II) RADEON(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 11 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Initialized kernel agp heap manager, 5111808 (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing built-in extension ... ... However, glxinfo gives: ... direct rendering: No ... OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect ... Any ideas ? -- O__ Enzo. ,>/ ____________________________________________________()_\()____ Enzo A. Dari | Instituto Balseiro / Centro Atomico Bariloche Web page: http://cabmec1.cnea.gov.ar/darie/darie.html
