Radeon DRI/3D status

[Juergen Lock]

In article <20101019204409.GA5603 at logik.internal.network> you write:
>Hello.
Hi!
>
>What's the current status of DRI/3D support with the 4xxx range of ATI
>cards?
>
>I'm on 8.0-RELEASE and have just installed a (borrowed) 4870 card. I
>get working dual monitor support but only software rasterization in
>xorg.
>
>The intention is to replace a broken x1950 card with something at least
>slightly newer but I can't find any real information (other than an
>apparently outdated wiki page) that suggests anything is or isn't
>supported.

 See /usr/ports/UPDATING entry from 20100207, you need to define
WITHOUT_NOUVEAU to get opengl on Radeon HD [234]xxx.

 HTH,
	Juergen