Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

[maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com>]

--- Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/25/05, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > --- Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
> > >
> > > What motherboard do you have?
> > 
> > Asus K8N-E Deluxe skt 754 w/nVidia chipset
> > 
> 
> <hehe!!> We're in this one together buddy! I managed
> to buy one of
> those motherboards today from NewEgg. I'll be
> building the machine
> next week.

Well, at least X works. What video card will you be
using?
> 
> Here's my guess. If you look at 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 the
> NVidia AGP
> support clearly says Nforce/Nforce2. My suspicion is
> that the AGP
> chipset support for this chipset (NForce4) isn't in

Whoa! NForce4?! What about 2, 3? I'm looking at the
Asus User Guide, p xi, in the box, Chipset: NVIDIA
nForce3 250Gb

> the kernel yet and
> that we need to find a patch, or possibly look at a
> kernel.org kernel
> for like 2.6.13/14/15, etc. and find one that does.
> 
> Assuming that there isn't a patch then we get in
> line with the kernel
> developers and work to get one done. I had this
> problem with my laptop
> when I first got it and couldn't get DMA for the ATI
> cipset. It took
> between 30 and 60 days as I remember.

This is all new territory for me.

> 
> Anyway, I bought one today so I'm in the life raft
> with ya!
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> -- 
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> 

UPDATE: did a sync and was able to emerge the new
ati-drivers. This time fglrx.ko *was* generated and is
loaded at boot. But now I get 

$startx
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance
(BusID PCI:1:0:1) found # faq says ignore
(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error
"xf86_ENODEV"
(EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP
Could not init font path element
/usr/share/fonts/local/, removing from list!

The fix according to the faq: I need to clean up the
sources make oldconfig etc, re-emerge the drivers.

WRONG :(



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