fglrx question

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

Warning, fglrx newbie here.  I've been running the kernels radeon drivers 
for the last 3 years since my last nvidia card took a crap and took the 
motherboard with it.

I've downloaded and installed the current ati drivers for my third party 
(VisionTek I think) ati 9200SE 128mb card.

Unforch, its running at about 1/4 the speed I can get from the kernels 
radeon drivers.

kernel is 2.6.20-ck1, ati-agp and nvidia-agp are compiled in but this made 
no difference.  There is also an ati-agp module loaded according to 
lsmod.

DRM and DRI refuse to initialize.  So the Xorg.0.log has this:
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(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
(II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) 
found
(II) fglrx(0): pEnt->device->identifier=0x8217610
(II) fglrx(0): === [R200PreInit] === begin, [s]
(II) fglrx(0): PCI bus 2 card 0 func 0
(**) fglrx(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(II) fglrx(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps)
(==) fglrx(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(**) fglrx(0): Option "DPMS" "true"
(==) fglrx(0): RGB weight 888
(II) fglrx(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
(==) fglrx(0): Gamma Correction for I is 0x06419064
(==) fglrx(0): Gamma Correction for II is 0x06419064
(==) fglrx(0): Buffer Tiling is ON
(II) fglrx(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "RADEON 9250/9200 Series (RV280 5964)" (Chipset = 
0x5964)
(--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x1545, PciSubDevice = 0x7c13)
(--) fglrx(0): board vendor info: third party graphics adapter - NOT 
original ATI
(--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at 0xd8000000
(--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xe9000000
(==) fglrx(0): ROM-BIOS at 0x000c0000
(II) fglrx(0): VESA BIOS detected
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE Version 2.0
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 16384 kB
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM: ATI RADEON 9200
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.0
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: V280
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: 01.00
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to open DRM connection
(--) fglrx(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kByte, Type: DDR SGRAM / SDRAM
(II) fglrx(0): AGP card detected
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(II) fglrx(0): Connected Display1: CRT on primary DAC
(II) fglrx(0): Display1 EDID data ---------------------------
(II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer: XXX  Model: 1996  Serial#: 69590637
(II) fglrx(0): Year: 2005  Week: 30
(II) fglrx(0): EDID Version: 1.1
(II) fglrx(0): Analog Display Input,  Input Voltage Level: 0.700/0.700 V
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then near the end, this:
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[root@coyote ~]# grep '(WW)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module ati-agp
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) 
found
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to open DRM connection
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!                  *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)             *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available                *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...

The question is what kernel module?

The /etc/X11/xorg.conf was generated with 'aticonfig --initial' from a tty 
console.  I've added drm and ati-agp to the Load Modules section, no 
difference.

The gzipped .config for this kernel is attached.

What else would it be helpfull to post in an attempt to troubleshoot this?

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