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> What would you do with Radeon 9800 Pro hardware acceleration under XFree86
> if you had it?  (Just curious.  I would expect that the card would work
> well enough for 99% of mundane window management without special hardware
> acceleration.  Do you have a particular X11 feature extension in mind?)

The reason is that I am working on OpenGL programming. I understand that there will be no Unreal Tournament 2003 for FreeBSD as there is one for Linux however OpenGL code for Linux and FreeBSD *should* be portable, and I am trying to learn it so I may bring some games to FreeBSD.