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Old 23rd March 2011
adamk adamk is offline
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3D acceleration is available on FreeBSD with the nvidia proprietary driver and various open source drivers (though the open source drivers are less capable than they are on Linux). Since I believe the webgl stuff on Linux requires either proprietary drivers or features only available when using KMS, I think that only the nvidia proprietary driver will be able to provide 3D acceleration for firefox4 on FreeBSD.

Neither NetBSD nor OpenBSD have 3D acceleration for nvidia cards, so they will not work in that situation. OpenBSD does have some support for GEM on intel GPUs, which might be enough to get 3D acceleration on FF4, but I have my doubts that's actually the case.
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