ATI Radeon 9800 Pro & NForce 2 Motherboard

[Phleace]

Greetings!

I have read several threads that have given instructions and troubleshooting for the ATI's in Fedora Core 2, and even followed this guide (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2028). I did not have any problems installing or configuring it, and didn't get any errors.

The problem is, the ATI control panel thing is loaded, however, Direct Rendering still says 'No'.

My specs:

Gigabyte 7N400 Motherboard
(NForce 2 Chipset)
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (1.8GHz)
1GB DDR PC3200 RAM
128MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
80GB Seagate 7200 RPM HDD

How can I resolve this situation? Many people have followed that guide and it has worked fine, however, apparently there is an issue with NForce chipsets with certain boards. I have the UseExternalAGPGart thing set to 'no', as I do not have the Linux NForce2 drivers installed (provided on NVIDIA's website).

I am almost perfectly sure X is using the correct config file and the file is set up correctly. After following all of the steps of the guide, I restarted X, and discovered that my framerate had dropped from 316fps in glxgears (which is horrible, obviously) to a low 93fps (even worse).

Please offer any suggestions if you can. All help is GREATLY appreciated!

Many thanks!

~Phleace

[Phleace]

*bump!*

...oops.

Anyone have any ideas? Fedora is still just sitting there... sigh.

:(

[Phleace]

*bump*

It's been quite a while... :(

Still not working.

Any suggestions... please? :confused:

Thanks.

[theurge]

I have the same hardware as you and are stuck in the same place as you. I have no solution to this which is why I think I'm the first to respond to your post.

:(

[jshua]

I used the general howto from 3drage.com but the one thing I did different was use the xorg.conf and just added my own parameters.
The VideoOverlay Option under my tvstuff can be omitted.. its for my TV Wonder Pro PCI card. Still trying to figure out sound.
Here is my config.. it works and the new ATI 3.9.0 driver are in use. I do have a 9700 which I don't think differs much...plus I have Nforce2 on a DFI Lanparty mobo

Hope this helps..

##############################################
# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
Load "v4l"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Dell M781p"
DisplaySize 300 230
HorizSync 30.0 - 85.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 9700 Pro"

Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "mtrr" "on"
# Option "compsite_sync" "off"
#tv stuff....
# VideoRam 32768
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"

EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
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