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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:56:18 +0200
h <h@erathia.be> wrote:

> i have a fujitsu siemens lifebook C, celeron 400mhz running freebsd
> 4.10.
> 
> its graphics card is a trident Cyber9525 with 2.5mb onboard :-)
> 
> some data sheet says it has 3D acceleration, but how do i activate
> it ? do i follow the same howto than for a ATI rage 3D card, for
> example, using XFree86-4's built-in acceleration ?

Probally won't be able to get it working. AFAIK 3D requires both
having a kernel mod for it and X server that supports it. That chipset
afaik has no 3D support in either. There may be a bit of 2d render
accel under X, but I would not really count on that much with that old
of a chipset.