On Thursday 30 October 2003 7:30 am, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
Isn't it nice. A new release of SuSE and you STILL can't get 3D via the supplied driver nor the most current on the nVidia site. I don't know who to blame, but I DO know I'm going to encourage everyone I can to boycot ALL nVidia products!!
Im at a loss what the problem is.
Iv'e installed suse on NVidia hardware ever since the 0.7 series (of the NVidia driver) / Suse 6.4 , and I've never had much problems with NVidia (well apart from getting the 4496 driver to work on a Dell M60 ).
I've recentlyistalled 9.0 on a couple of boxes (ranging from a PIII w/ geforce 2 to a P4/quadro FX 500) and have not had any problems whatsoever.
I suspect that the problem I had with the KDE updates on 8.2 could have been resolved by editing the file as I've done with 9.0. But, I didn't try that when 8.2 was installed.
When it comes to having a 3D card capable of viewing large seismic volumes under Linux , nvidia is the only card that delivers. And it also does support stereo. see http://www.fugro-jason.com/workflow/wf_bc_frame.html
Don't discount ATI.
We've tested a bunch of other cards (inclduing the wildcats with custom Xserver) and none of them come close for our purposes.
I've had mixed results with them. When they work, they're good. Best, Fred -- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."