On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:18:48 -0800 (PST), MindBender wrote:

I presume that you are referering to that note below --- NOTE: There is no need to try to enable 3D support. It's already enabled, when the nvidia driver is running. --- but Ok... there is a game that comes with KDE, not sure of the name sine I'm not at home now, that complain unable to run since it require 3D to be enable.. Good if you where able to install your sys.. with no problem simply using sax command and test that 3D was enable... I'll try some more... Thnks for your reply... --- Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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read the rest of the how-to page on installing the NVidia driver. --

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Please, check in your X config file. There should be a Section "Device" and an entry: Driver "nv" or Driver "nvidia" If it is nv, change it to nvidia. If it is nvidia, it should work that way. I have no 9.2 at hand, but I remember, that just using YaST/Hardware/Graphic card and monitor displayed 3d Enabled for my friend's installation. If it is set to "nvidia" driver, and it is still not displaying that 3D is enabled, please take a look in your X log file for a line like: LoadModule: "nvidia" and also: NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized If you miss such a lines, this means your driver is not correctly installed/configured. Sunny P.S. Please, use top quoting in this list. -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85

If we are talking about hardware accelerated 3d support, glxgears simply running isn't good enough as it will still work with software rendering via mesa lib. Of course if you getting 1k+ frames / second, this is a good indicator that hardware acceleration is enabled as you would have to have quite the monster machine to get that frame rate from software rendering. The best thing to check (for nVidia anyway) is to check /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status for Status: Enabled B-) On Monday 17 January 2005 03:25 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* MindBender [01-17-05 14:21]:

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I presume that you are referering to that note below --- NOTE: There is no need to try to enable 3D support. It's already enabled, when the nvidia driver is running. --- but Ok... there is a game that comes with KDE, not sure of the name sine I'm not at home now, that complain unable to run since it require 3D to be enable.. Good if you where able to install your sys.. with no problem simply using sax command and test that 3D was enable... I'll try some more...

run from the command-line: glxgears

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I got it to it to work.. for some reason after recompiling the drivers sax2 could not load the nvidia modules.. only after loading it manually with modprobe that I was able to configure X with the command sax2 -m 0=nvidia .. Thanks to all who reply.. --- Peter B Van Campen wrote:

note the string "direct rendering:yes" line

But the best indicator is still the NVIDIA Logo

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On Tuesday 18 January 2005 10:48 pm, Susemail wrote:

On Monday 17 January 2005 14:44, Peter B Van Campen wrote:

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On Monday 17 January 2005 4:25 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* MindBender [01-17-05 14:21]:

run from the command-line: glxgears

if successful, 3d is working

Hi,

From cli,do glxinfo you should see a torrent of text, but near the top you will see:

xxxxxxx@xxxx:~> glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation server glx version string: 1.3 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer"

note the string "direct rendering:yes" line

But the best indicator is still the NVIDIA Logo screen at the end of boot time, beginning of X startup; once you have seen it you won't forget it.

PeterB --

Hi Peter,

I did as you suggested and got a nasty surprise: :~> glxinfo

name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

What do I do to correct this? Thanks, Hi Jerome,

don't do it as root, only as user PeterB -- -- Proud SUSE user since 5.2 Loving SUSE 9.2 My BLOG == http://vancampen.org/blog --

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 19:15, Peter B Van Campen wrote:

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 10:48 pm, Susemail wrote:

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On Monday 17 January 2005 14:44, Peter B Van Campen wrote:

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On Monday 17 January 2005 4:25 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* MindBender [01-17-05 14:21]:

run from the command-line: glxgears

if successful, 3d is working

Hi,

From cli,do glxinfo you should see a torrent of text, but near the top you will see:

xxxxxxx@xxxx:~> glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation server glx version string: 1.3 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer"

note the string "direct rendering:yes" line

But the best indicator is still the NVIDIA Logo screen at the end of boot time, beginning of X startup; once you have seen it you won't forget it.

PeterB --

Hi Peter,

I did as you suggested and got a nasty surprise: :~> glxinfo

name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

What do I do to correct this? Thanks,

Hi Jerome,

don't do it as root, only as user

PeterB

ps It works on the 9.2 box but not the 9.1.

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:52, Ken Schneider wrote:

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 14:18, MindBender wrote:

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I presume that you are referering to that note below --- NOTE: There is no need to try to enable 3D support. It's already enabled, when the nvidia driver is running. --- but Ok... there is a game that comes with KDE, not sure of the name sine I'm not at home now, that complain unable to run since it require 3D to be enable.. Good if you where able to install your sys.. with no problem simply using sax command and test that 3D was enable... I'll try some more... Thnks for your reply... --- Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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read the rest of the how-to page on installing the NVidia driver. --

And I have noticed that since the upgrade to kernel 2.6.5-7.111.19-smp that I cannot turn on 3D. If I do it complains that no screens are found.

Yep, just downgraded to the 2.6.5-7.111.5-smp kernel and 3D is now working again. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 19:38, Peter B Van Campen wrote:

On Monday 17 January 2005 5:24 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:52, Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 14:18, MindBender wrote:

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I presume that you are referering to that note below --- NOTE: There is no need to try to enable 3D support. It's already enabled, when the nvidia driver is running.

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Yep, just downgraded to the 2.6.5-7.111.5-smp kernel and 3D is now working again.

Hi Ken,

Running on 2.6.8-24.10-SMP on a dual P-III coppermine box running 9.2

PeterB

Probably would work but I prefer strikly using the SuSE supplied kernels. By the way, 9.1 on proliant ML330 (zeon processor). -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*