On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Fred Miller [06-19-08 22:43]:

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Does anyone have a sage advice on getting the nvidia drivers to work properly? I added the site in the "community sites" added in Yast, but neither of the official nvidia drivers provide 3d.

and you *know* this how?

1. Historically the nvidia drivers have denied to show 3d availability. 2. grep -i nv /ect/X11/xorg.conf if result is nvidia, nvidia *is* installed 3. open a text window and run: glxgears. if it runs you have 3d.

Well, glxgears also works with software 3d. You have to start it from a terminal window and compare the fps written there before and after installation of nvidia driver. The fps depends on hardware, but usually it increases from under 500 to over 1000.

Really Fred, you know the drill. You must give information for *anyone* to assist you. Crystal balls do *not* work!

Many use the repositories to install the nvidia drivers. I perfer to download the bin file and install it. sh ./NVIDIAxxxxxxxx -a or sh ./NVIDIAxxxxxxxx --update

both work and require kernel headers to be installed

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Joachim Reichelt schrieb:

Andreas Vetter schrieb:

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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Fred Miller [06-19-08 22:43]:

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Does anyone have a sage advice on getting the nvidia drivers to work properly? I added the site in the "community sites" added in Yast, but neither of the official nvidia drivers provide 3d.

and you *know* this how?

1. Historically the nvidia drivers have denied to show 3d availability. 2. grep -i nv /ect/X11/xorg.conf if result is nvidia, nvidia *is* installed 3. open a text window and run: glxgears. if it runs you have 3d.

Well, glxgears also works with software 3d. You have to start it from a terminal window and compare the fps written there before and after installation of nvidia driver. The fps depends on hardware, but usually it increases from under 500 to over 1000.

glxinfo is the tool you shoud use A short list: mesa A really long list nvidi And look at the first ~10 lines!

what about: cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version if it is not available: no nvidia driver --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Michael Riess wrote:

Joachim Reichelt schrieb:

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Andreas Vetter schrieb:

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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Fred Miller [06-19-08 22:43]:

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Does anyone have a sage advice on getting the nvidia drivers to work properly? I added the site in the "community sites" added in Yast, but neither of the official nvidia drivers provide 3d.

and you *know* this how?

1. Historically the nvidia drivers have denied to show 3d availability. 2. grep -i nv /ect/X11/xorg.conf if result is nvidia, nvidia *is* installed 3. open a text window and run: glxgears. if it runs you have 3d.

Well, glxgears also works with software 3d. You have to start it from a terminal window and compare the fps written there before and after installation of nvidia driver. The fps depends on hardware, but usually it increases from under 500 to over 1000.

glxinfo is the tool you shoud use A short list: mesa A really long list nvidi And look at the first ~10 lines!

what about: cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version

if it is not available: no nvidia driver

Correct way to test enabled acceleration is glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" which answer Yes or No Installed nvidia can have this disabled (but you must broke something and then you doesn't have 3d support). JR --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org