Just installed 1.3 Beta, still no AGP

[rhenry74]

Has anyone had success with ATI Radeon 8500?

From Xorg.0.log


(II) RADEON(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "pci:0000:01:00.0"
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xc5f9c000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xc5f9c000 to 0x2876c000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xf0000000
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
(EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module
is loaded before the radeon kernel module.
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xc5f9c000 at 0x2876c000
(II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default
(II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1280,8191)
(II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1024) to (1280,1026)
(II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7165
(II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration enabled
(II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
Solid Lines
Scanline Image Writes
Offscreen Pixmaps
Setting up tile and stipple cache:
32 128x128 slots
32 256x256 slots
16 512x512 slots
(II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled
(==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled
(==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) RADEON(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1026)
(II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7161
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled
(II) RADEON(0): No video input capabilities detected and no information is provided - disabling multimedia i2c
(II) Loading sub module "theatre_detect"
(II) LoadModule: "theatre_detect"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/multimedia/theatre_detect_drv.so
(II) Module theatre_detect: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
(II) RADEON(0): no multimedia table present, disabling Rage Theatre.
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(==) RandR enabled

[dracheflieger]

This may give you some ideas (http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting)

It gives you several things to try specific to FreeBSD (which is what you are using if in PC-BSD)

[jdarnold]

I have an x850 and, after much gnashing of teeth and banging of head, got it to mostly work. See my posting here about it:

http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000761.html