ATI, OpenGl, and the like.

From: NiY (niyamas_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/06/04

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    Greetings! I've been a FreeBSD user for a few years now, off and on.
    After my last harddrive dumped on me, I decided to stick with FreeBSD
    as my main OS. I work as an PC/Net technician/admin and know the
    console and server ends of FreeBSD rather well at this point. I've
    never been much into graphics and games, but a little while ago I
    stumbled, through happenstance, upon an ATI AIW Raden 9600 w/ 128 Megs
    ram. I sold my old graphics card for cigarrette and pizza money, so
    going back to it is no longer an option. My first thought was to get
    the dual head function working under X11. No go. I googled the hell
    out of it, tried all the stuff I could find, wouldn't work for me. Not
    a big deal, I'll pic up an old pci video card at some point and give
    it another shot. If anyone happens to have an XF86Config or Xorg.conf
    file with this setup running, however, please feel free to send it my
    way.
    In my travels around the web I found a lot of irate FreeBSD users with
    ATI graphics cards, specifically dealing with getting OpenGL to work.
    I am running X.org 6.8.1 on FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have dual P3 1.0Ghzs and
    512 megs RAM. Should be more than enough to play a silly little game
    on. The game in question is Cube. It looks nice, figured it might help
    me kill some time between on call rotations. Problem is, the darn
    thing runs slow enough to pace mollasses in january. I get 10 fps
    average. Can anyone point me in the right direction here? How can I
    tell if OpenGL is running properly? Where can I find info on
    configuring OpenGL for my card? I've tried setting the FPS range in
    the game, doesn't help.

    Oh, and if anyone knows what the deal is with these graphics cards and
    FreeBSD (well, I guess X on FreeBSD more specifically) is.. status of
    drivers and what not, point me in the right direction. Nothing major,
    just a little frustrating. All in all, I love FreeBSD. If this card
    isn't going to work for me, can anyone recommend a dual head video
    card that runs decently with OpenGL and has a built in TV tuner?
    Preferably a tv tuner that will actually work? (still holding my
    breath for the Gatos team to catch up some day.)

    If you need any of my config information, lemme know. Sorry for the
    message length, wasn't quite sure how to trim it down.
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