Re: Red Hat 9 & Radeon 8500

rlxttin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.xfree86
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Yangcheng,

Thanks for your reply.

I am new to Linux, how can I add AGP support to the kernel?
My system is Red Hat 9.0 with XFree86 4.3.0-2.

I have tried to check with lsmod. There do exist an unused module radeon
but no agpgart which I think the one you mentioned.

Thanks a lot.


> HUANG Yangcheng wrote:
> I have not read your previous msg.
> However,does your kernel support AGP(CONFIG_AGP_*) now?
> Perhaps you should re-compile the kernel.
> 
> Cheers
> Yangcheng

>> rlxttin wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> Sorry for raising the same question again. Since there is no reply to
>> my last post, may be I have not given enough details for my
>> situation.
>> 
>> I have observed the following two error messages from the log file:
>> 
>> (WW) RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
>> (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
>> 
>> Does it really matter? How can I fix it?
>> 
>> I am using Radeon 8500 with P4S8X mother board.
>> 
>> When I test my system with screen saver required GL, the performance
>> is deadly slow.
>> 
>> Any help?
>> 
>> Thanks.



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