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Old 9th February 2009
adamk adamk is offline
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I found it was because I missed the text processing tools package on install.

Xorg is installed now but tries to load the glx module and fails.

Also I don't believe it is correctly recognizing my Radeon 4870X2 as fluxbox feels really slow.

What is glx for and how do I get it?


If this doesn't work I'll just get rid of Xorg and install the X sets from the disc.
You are probably using the vesa driver, which has no 2D or 3D acceleration, and which does not support glx (either in hardware or software). The radeon and radeonhd drivers should support basic 2D modesettings, and 2D acceleration via shadowfb, but I have no idea if NetBSD packages a new enough version.

If you get it working with one of those two drivers, you should get glx support. It will still be software glx only since there's still no 3D acceleration.

Adam
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