NVidia Driver no acceleration

Hello list I just put in my new mother board, biostar with an nvidia nforce chipset and the nvidia 6100 gpu onboard. I installed the nvidia driver from the nvidia web site following the instructions for using yast. It had no acceleration, glxgears showing about 77 fps and the gears were very choppy. I then download the nvidia driver installer and ran it manually from a terminal, everything ran fine, but still no acceleration. I have no clue where to start with this one. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. John -- Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org