Hello,

> - the well known "garbage on exit"
I got a few hints how to reset the console in case X11 doesn't properly clean up after itself - may need machine ( or OF version ) specific quirks.

> - GL! is ther a way to get GL working? to run glxgears lets say ((but
> for more serious stuff too).
It does already work, although software-only. I got around 40fps in glxgears on my 300MHz G3 with a Voodoo3 in 32bit colour.

> The best thing would be hardware
> acceleration since enev win95 was able to get this out of my matrox.
This requires working DRI. XFree86 4.4 comes with a rudimentary implementation for NetBSD which needs major hacking to get it to compile, even more on a non-x86 box and that's still no guarantee that it will work or support your card.

> The next step would be mesaGL but they would be compiled in a way so that
> they pass through X11 GL (something the author, Briuan Paul, usually
> doesn't support directly, AFAIK). 
XFree 4.4 comes with MesaGL. The Xserver you got from me probably only lacks libraries ( or you didn't enable the glx module in your XF86Config )

have fun
Michael