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[Godwin Stewart]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:45:32 +0100, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> For 3D you have to load the agp and radeon modules.

This is a Rage128, not a Radeon.

agp is built into the kernel and r128 is already kldloaded.

I tried kldloading radeon anyway and running glxgears. It can't do any
better than about 10 fps at 1024x768/24bits.

Mind you, this might have something to do with it:

$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

And yet, quoting snippets from /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "drm"
(II) LoadModule: "drm"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/freebsd/libdrm.a
(II) Module drm: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI


/etc/X11/xorg.conf also has this:

Section "DRI"
   Mode 0666
EndSection

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