On Wednesday 16 November 2005 01:18 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:51 pm, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
Steven, I have one of those... the nvida driver adds some version of 3d control that most programs that do POVRAY ,or similar proggies , need.. you can use the one in the Yast online update menu ( somewhere near the bottom of the list ) and stuff just stops bitching.. I didn't go thru the build your own because stuff stopped bitchin at me when I used the one YOU had on offer.. <shrug> OF course YMMV ;-D
I have the one from YaST installed. Or so I thought. In SaX2 the 3D option is grayed out. 3Ddiag gives this:
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Verifying driver installation: nvidia ... failed! ======================= !!! WARNING !!! ======================== Due to license issues only a Dummy Nvidia 2D/3D driver with Software 3D/OpenGL rendering is provided. Please download the official 2D/3D Nvidia driver from the nVidia webserver (http://www.nvidia.com), if you want to use 3D hardware accelerated 3D/OpenGL.
OK, so I went to the nvidia site and found the diver for Linux. They had a link to the SuSE documentation on suse.de, which was written in English and mentioned the name of a script which I recognized from lookin in /usr/share/doc/nvidia. Stupid me, I looked /there/ to find the documentation, not the software; go figure. I followed the instructions, and they worked just fine. Now 3d graphics with OpenSceneGraph are fantastic, and I don't get that annoying error message. Steven