I put in my working copy of the glx port from openprojects.net
for FreeBSD and XFree86 3.3.5


Problems:

  . It works on a RIVA TNT boards, no confirmation
    that it works on Matrox yet. However it is very
    unlikely that I broke Matrox functionality.

  . I should base this port on a more recent snapshot
    of the glx archive (but this one works at least)


Installation:

After download and decompression, please copy the shar archive to some 
directory, and type 

    sh glx-990914.shar

to unpack it into a 'glx' directory.


Please deinstall existing Mesa-3.0 or glx packages.
If you don't the port should notify you later.
Same applies to XFree86. The port should complain if your
stuff is too old.


Type 

    script 01.log   # to log everything
    bash            # or whatever shell
    cd glx
    export CHIPSET_3D=RIVA
or
    export CHIPSET_3D=MGA
    date; make; date; make install; date


(You will run not into more than one trap, I hope :-) 

    exit            # exit shell
    exit            # exit script


After this you should be able to have accelerated 3d - if not send me
your log please to help me identifying problems.

I put up logs of my building sessions on the web site, they should
give you an impression of what will happen (and how long it takes
on a K6-300 system).


One test you can try is 

    cd /usr/ports/graphics/Mesa3/work/Mesa-3.0/demos
    ./gears (watch software rendering)

And then run the Makefile.freebsd from

    http://www.freebsd.org/~3d/distfiles/Mesa/3.0/demos/Makefile.freebsd

in that demos directory to create and run some versions that link to the 
accelerated libGL:

    make -f Makefile.freebsd exec

Note: 
Many demos have context menu on mouse-button2, most exit after ESC


This all should run quite fast. :)


Another source of OpenGL demos is the xscreensaver from the ports
collection. It has lots of great OpenGL savers. (Try 'glplanet -root')

Have fun!


Marc van Woerkom  <3d@freebsd.org>
September, 15th 1999