Well... just asking:
if anyone has quake/linux running properly with ati-card, please tell me how?
card i have is Ati prophet9000 128mb, if it helps anything...
after i install drivers with little help of google ( http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon ) , only what i get after is this.

[naali@dhcppc0 run]$ ./glsw
X Error of failed request: XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode
Major opcode of failed request: 136 (XFree86-DGA)
Minor opcode of failed request: 2 (XF86DGADirectVideo)
Serial number of failed request: 84
Current serial number in output stream: 85

and cause i havent use linux for long, i really cant figure out what is wrong and what to do?

-nodga will disable DGA and let you run it for now

but ideally you should enable DGA input in your xorg.conf (or XF86Config) in /etc/X11

search for a line like Option "omit xfree86-dga" and comment it out / delete it

oldman, beside the love of os x, do you use any other bsd os? ...like OpenBSD?

nah i just have os x laptop and archlinux desktop

these days i only really use the desktop for playing qw and ETF