I also have an 8600GT, I read somewhere in the past, that you need to use the drivers from the nvidia web site. So I downloaded them and ran through the installation process. Everything seems to work fine but I really couldn't make the 3D Desktop options to be enabled. I am running gnome and when I try to enable the options (3d desktop) it says that my card doesn't seem to support 3d and it tries to run Sax2. arijit sarkar wrote:

Hi everybody,

I was an user of Ubuntu (yes, was!). After using opensuse 10.3 BETA for few days I've decided to shift to Opensuse. It's simply brilliant and too professional. I'm from India. And right now (23:00 IST), I've started downloading the iso-image for Gnome CD. It'll take some time to complete, approx 7-8 hrs (the whole night, Internet is too slow here and fat bandwidth costs much - but that's a different story).

All I want to know, that I've Geforce 8600GT graphics card. In BETA CD, it was detected properly but I couldn't use 3D acceleration. Can anybody tell me how to get 3D acceleration? Any link to online help/wikis etc will do.

thanks in advance,

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arijit sarkar wrote:

Hi everybody,

I was an user of Ubuntu (yes, was!). After using opensuse 10.3 BETA for few days I've decided to shift to Opensuse. It's simply brilliant and too professional. I'm from India. And right now (23:00 IST), I've started downloading the iso-image for Gnome CD. It'll take some time to complete, approx 7-8 hrs (the whole night, Internet is too slow here and fat bandwidth costs much - but that's a different story).

All I want to know, that I've Geforce 8600GT graphics card. In BETA CD, it was detected properly but I couldn't use 3D acceleration. Can anybody tell me how to get 3D acceleration? Any link to online help/wikis etc will do.

I have the 8600GT and you should install the binary drivers. See the aforemention NVIDIA page on the wiki for more info. The only other trick is to *never* use the YaST tool to change the display settings. It just makes things worse. Always use the nvidia-config program to change them. Also, run the nvidia-config program as root for best results. I just added 'kdesu' to the front of the nvidia-config command in the menu item. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org