Subject: Determining AGP / video card support in NetBSD
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Beaker <beaker@myrealbox.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/13/2002 11:59:49
This came up on our local Linux/OpenSource group list and I'm at a loss to
answer it:

>i hate to be a dork about this, but the NetBSD hardware list doesn't
mention
>any 3D graphics cards.  is this functionality entirely dependent on X?
will my
>3D graphics be accelerated under NetBSD?  Does NetBSD have the equivalent
of
>DRI kernel modules?  i'm using a Radeon, which runs just fine (accelerated)
>under linux and windoze.
>
>I'd love to switch to a proper Unix as linux is pissing me off and windoze
>won't install anymore (can't format my drive?  what?)  but accelerated
graphics
>are rather important to me.  as far as i know, this leaves two (maybe
three...)
>choices of OS.

 How DOES a user determine AGP support on NetBSD? I looked around in the
'supported hardware' section at http://www.netbsd.org/Ports but didn't see
AGP mentioned. A Google search pulled up a somewhat dated reference to a
kernel module but again, I didn't find anything about an AGP module in the
'Documentation' sections.

Puzzled,
Beaker