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Subject: Re: 3D Hardware Graphics
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On Tuesday 27 December 2005 06:28, Jon wrote:
> I'm wondering how to get 3D Hardware graphics going
> under FreeBSD.
> I tried both the LibGL.so that came with the driver
> for my graphics card and the default LibGL.so that
> came with FreeBSD '/usr/X11R6/lib' but no go, still
> slow software mode. I have a DRI radeon enabled driver
> and a radeon driver for xorg.conf, AGP was built into
> my kernel. What else can I try to get this going?
>
> FreeBSD 6.0 STABLE - ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

As far as I understand things, support for that card is still 
experimental, so make sure you have recent versions of 6.0-stable, 
x11-servers/xorg-server-snap and graphics/dri-devel.