On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:57:20 +0100 (CET)
"Peter Rundberg"
I've tried to load the fglrx modules but i hadn't succes wiht combilation of them.
The only good accelerated OpenGL in AMD64 Linux is with an nVidia card and the nividia binary drivers.
It depends on how you define good. Nvidia doesn't have 32bit emulation in their drivers, which means 32bit programs won't get accelerated. The free driver for older Radeons included in the distribution supports that fine.
By the way, is it necessary to have an "agpgart" module in Suse Linux?
Yes, you need it for AGP support if your drivers doesn't do it for you (like the nVidia drivers can). I am not sure how the ATI drivers do it.
On x86-64 an agpgart module is not needed and even dangerous. The AGP driver is always built into the kernel. This is needed for the AGP based x86-64 IOMMU. The AMD K8 core has most of the functionality of the AGP bridge built in the core CPU, so this isn't a big issue. One common driver works for most chipsets. It is dangerous to play with self compiled agpgart modules, because these will destroy the state of the kernel driver. When you use the IOMMU for some reason (e.g. you have enough memory and PCI devices that are not 64bit capable like most IDE devices) then you risk severe data corruption and corrupted file systems. -Andi