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Date:      07 Feb 2003 00:20:55 -0800
From:      Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
To:        Corey Holcomb-Hockin <crsntlvs@ipeg.com>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.7 Matrox G400 OpenGL help
Message-ID:  <1044606054.680.2.camel@leguin>
In-Reply-To: <3E44B6BF.1080308@ipeg.com>
References:  <3E44B6BF.1080308@ipeg.com>

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On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 23:50, Corey Holcomb-Hockin wrote:
> I need help setting up FreeBSD to compile and run OpenGL programs on my
> Matrox G400.
> 
> I've done a few things already.  I just got a a7v-266e motherboard
> because my old a7a-133 couldn't load the drm module.  I've compiled agp
> into the kernel.  I've loaded drm_kmod-0.9.5_1 by running drm.sh.sample
> by hand but I'm not sure how to set it up to automatically load.  I've
> set my kern.module_path in etc/sysctl.conf to
> "/;/boot/;/modules//;/usr/local/lib/drm", but that doesn't seem to do
> it.  I've also added dri and glx to my XF86Config.
> 
> I've been told before I need to compile the Xfree86 port with
> WITH_MATROX_GXX_DRIVER=yes but I haven't done that yet because of the
> large download. I'll do that after I get a better idea of everything I
> need to do.
> 
> I've also heard that I need to compile a opengl library, but I'm not
> sure which or how.

Full instructions on this can be found at
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/install.html. 

You don't need WITH_MATROX_GXX_DRIVER, and I would recommend against
using it unless you need something it specifically provides.

-- 
Eric Anholt                                eta@lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt@FreeBSD.org


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