I've now decided anybody that has gotten this to work is running their card in 4x mode. I read another thread that said 8x just will not work. I'm going to try and remove some jumpers from my vid card to set it to 4x mode.

hmm gt2690b,

I'll hope that one will work, so I can get my drivers running

What distro do u use?

greetz, E-razoor

Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk
I've read some more and from what I gather, agp 3.0 (4x or 8x) doesnt work in 3D mode under any linux kernel. Maybe some test ones but I cant get those dam things to compile. Keep getting riscom8 errors and i dont know how to disable riscom8 in the menuconfig. I suppose its back to XP for awhile... *sigh* I sure would like some more suggestions... ANYONE!??!

This thread seems to have answered my questions. Looks like i'm screwed cause i'm not soldering away my AGP 3.0.

http://www.linuxhardware.org/comment...id=492&cid=831

Thats not what I want to read. I havbe the 400 chipset. When is 2.6 supposed to be realesed?

Dunno about 2.6... BUT.. here is another very interesting link... i've tried this and i get agpgart errors but XF still appears to run... (i'm not at home to see what is on the screen so i'll have to wait till i get home to see if it is actually working) good luck to me

http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/

holy crap that link finally got my shiat working.. I can finally play unreal2k3... i think it looks a little better under windows though because i can enable antialasing and anistropic filtering... maybe there is a setting somewhere.. who knows.. it looks pretty good though (@1280x1024)... anyone interested i can put up a step by step to get an ati radeon (r300) agp 3.0 @ 8x on a kt400 chipset under kernel the normal stable kernel (2.4.21 is mine).. i cant beleive this shiat finally works... i gotta email the guy that made that patch and worship him

Cool, I hope this lad, will be workin' here

Thnx 4 the link gt2690b! If its not workin on my version 3.2.4 driver, I'm screwed up..

BTW: UT2k3 rules

Greetz

screenshot if anyone is interested..
http://gtwreck.com/uploads/screen10.jpg

I would love to see a step by step for this. Or email me the steps. Thanks for looking and figuring it out.

Erm, gt2690b

How did you get your X working??
Which link did you press?, the "Linux ATI driver patch for KT400 chipset owners" one?

And how did you get this text into a file, and more importand, how did u get this context in linux?? (am using XP now, couse I dunno how to download the script in bash)

Hope you have got some advice 4 me

i'm really interested in how you got that patch working as well, since i have a similar link for the via 8235 chipset, which is what i have. unfortunately i don't know what to do with it.

OK.. if you guys have already compiled the fglrx driver using the make.sh script in /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/ directory then using this patch should be easy..

if you haven't... you need to get the souce kernel for your distro... you wont have to recompile your kernel or anything.. the fglrx scripts just uses the kernel source to make a custom driver.. in mandrake.. you can install the source from rpmdrake from the install cd's


KoS.. to download that patch on xp.. just right click on the link to it and do "Save As" or whatever.. then take off the .txt part of the filename that IE will put on... then follow the rest of his instructions on that webpage.. (you need to have your kernel source installed)..

so.. a quick step by step from the beginning

1) download fglrx driver (i used the ati one, not the schneider one)
2) make sure your kernel source is installed and that /usr/src/linux points to the source (rpm installs of kernel sources do this for you)
3) install the rpm (rpm -i --force <rpm name>.rpm)
4) download that patch from cocidius and follow his instructions to apply it (cat fglrx... ./make.sh.. and ./make_install.sh)
5) run fglrxconfig
6) run startx

i'll be happy to help with any problems encountered on any steps.. i think i got this shiat down now

p.s. I'm only sure this works for KT400 chipsets and an R300 Radeon and a decently current kernel

mcd - i just did exactly what cocidius said to do on that page.. maybe you need your kernel source? you have a radeon?

OK.. if you guys have already compiled the fglrx driver using the make.sh script in /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/ directory then using this patch should be easy..

if you haven't... you need to get the souce kernel for your distro... you wont have to recompile your kernel or anything.. the fglrx scripts just uses the kernel source to make a custom driver.. in mandrake.. you can install the source from rpmdrake from the install cd's


KoS.. to download that patch on xp.. just right click on the link to it and do "Save As" or whatever.. then take off the .txt part of the filename that IE will put on... then follow the rest of his instructions on that webpage.. (you need to have your kernel source installed)..

so.. a quick step by step from the beginning

1) download fglrx driver (i used the ati one, not the schneider one)
2) make sure your kernel source is installed and that /usr/src/linux points to the source (rpm installs of kernel sources do this for you)
3) install the rpm (rpm -i --force <rpm name>.rpm)
4) download that patch from cocidius and follow his instructions to apply it (cat fglrx... ./make.sh.. and ./make_install.sh)
5) run fglrxconfig
6) run startx

i'll be happy to help with any problems encountered on any steps.. i think i got this shiat down now

p.s. I'm only sure this works for KT400 chipsets and an R300 Radeon and a decently current kernel

mcd - i just did exactly what cocidius said to do on that page.. maybe you need your kernel source? you have a radeon?

oops.. i hit submit twice.. mods?