>But the X driver might need kernel support, like agpgart. This got me curious so I took a look around at www.netbsd.org but, damm! - not a dang thing could I find about AGP. So I posted to the netbsd-help list and got this reply:
--- reply from Michael Core via muc.lists.netbsd.help --- Beaker wrote: > 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. NetBSD-current has AGP support in general. man agp(4) mentions following chipsets - ALI M1541 host-to-AGP bridge - AMD 751 and 761 host-to-AGP bridges - Intel 82810, 82810-DC100, 82810E, and 82815 SVGA controllers - SiS 5591 host-to-AGP bridge - VIA > 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. Support for video cards is X's problem. An exception is DRI which is not supported by NetBSD at the moment. BTW, man agp(4) looks a little strange: HISTORY The agp driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.1. It was adopted in NetBSD 1.6. NetBSD 1.5.2 September 11, 2001 --- end of reply --- I knew the bit about X but was rather surprised at the difficulty in finding info on AGP support. But there it is: Since the various free BSDs borrow stuff from eachother I suspect OpenBSD should have similar AGP support. Check you chipset. Cheers, Beaker - daemon advocate - running NetBSD-1.5.2/i386
