2.6 and radeon 8500 problem

[Epyon9283]

I can't get the ATI fglrx drivers working with the 2.6 kernel. 2.6.0-test8 to be exact. I first tried getting the driver directly from ATI and just installing it using the rpm but the module wouldn't load. I then found out I needed a patch called fglrx-VMALLOC-fix.patch. That seemed to allow the module to load fine. The only problem was that when I started X it would die almost immediately. I would get this in the dmesg output:

Fire GL built-in AGP-support
Based on agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected a VIA KT266 missing the AGPv2 registers, chip might be a VIA KT400 or compatible. (VIA flag)
agpgart: Detected a Via Apollo KT400 chipset in AGP v2 compat mode at 0000:00:00.0
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo KT266/KT266A/KT333 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
Power management callback for AGP chipset installed
[fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x1f000207 (hardware caps of chipset)
AGP: Found 2 AGPv2 devices
AGP: Doing enable for AGPv2
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e0954320
printing eip:
e0954320
*pde = 1ff6d067
*pte = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<e0954320>] Tainted: P
EFLAGS: 00013296
EIP is at 0xe0954320
eax: 00000001 ebx: e0a4b640 ecx: ffffffff edx: 69746e65
esi: e0a4a918 edi: dfd2cb40 ebp: d8fa9f30 esp: d8fa9f10
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process X (pid: 4905, threadinfo=d8fa8000 task=d8a652a0)
Stack: e0a26b64 68747541 69746e65 444d4163 e0a4b670 e0a4b640 e0a4a918 dfd2cb40
e0a4b670 e0a2fd40 e0a267aa 1f000304 e0a4b640 e0a36465 e0a4b640 bffff704
00000004 d8a652a0 df6d92a0 1f000304 e0a363c0 e0a272c6 c168a340 d96b6240
Call Trace:
[<e0a26b64>] __ke_amd_adv_spec_cache_feature+0x14/0x80 [fglrx]
[<e0a2fd40>] _r6x_CheckAGPCommand+0x130/0x190 [fglrx]
[<e0a267aa>] __ke_agp_enable+0x2a/0x40 [fglrx]
[<e0a36465>] drm_agp_enable+0xa5/0xf0 [fglrx]
[<e0a363c0>] drm_agp_enable+0x0/0xf0 [fglrx]
[<e0a272c6>] firegl_ioctl+0x146/0x1b0 [fglrx]
[<c0165a94>] sys_ioctl+0xf4/0x2a0
[<c010a36f>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Code: Bad EIP value.

Then I tried using the fglrx-2.6-amd-adv-spec-fix.patch. That didn't do anything. Someone on the gentoo forums suggested I get the driver through portage because it patches some things that are supposed to fix my problem. Well I tried it and I get the same exact result. Now when I use the 2.6 kernel I can only start X if I don't use DRI. This is pretty slow. Does anyone know how I could fix this?

I'm using a radeon 8500 with the fglrx 3.2.8 drivers on gentoo 1.4 with the 2.6.0-test8 kernel.

[nukes]

The driver API has changed in 2.6 from 2.4, I'd try the open source drivers and see if that helps you any. The ones in the kernel work with XFree 4.3 so you don't need to patch it.
What build XFree and GCC are you using?

[Epyon9283]

I'm using XFree 4.3.0-r3 and GCC 3.3.1-r5.