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Subject: Recommended Video Card with OpenGL Acceleration?
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I've started down the path of OpenGL hackery, and am looking for
recommendations on good video cards support by X.org that have
hardware accelerated OpenGL. I'll be running this on 5.3-stable. Thus
far searches have indicated that ATI is to be avoided, NVIDIA is
decent, and "All cards supported by the DRI open source drivers work
fine in FreeBSD." I would hope that if a card is said to "work fine"
actually does do hardware OpenGL. (I have a laptop with a savage
twister [0x8d01] that works fine with X, albeit very slowly. It'd be
nice to have that usable.).

If people would care to bounce me a dmesg or hardware description,
X/Mesa/etc. versions and some glxgears framerates (csdemo framerates
would be even better), that'd be much appreciated. I'd prefer to not
have a completely frankensteined system, but if I need to be running
some package straight out of CVS, then so be it.

To forestall the ever-popular cries of STFA, I've already done some digging:
http://www.google.com/search?q=FreeBSD+OpenGL+acceleration
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/search.cgi?words=OpenGL&max=250&sort=score&index=recent&source=freebsd-newbies&source=freebsd-questions&source=freebsd-x11
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-questions&w=2&r=1&s=OpenGL&q=b
http://dri.sourceforge.net/
http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/11.18.shtml
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/
...

-- 
GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?