8600gt + Opensuse 10.3 = No 3d Acceleration

I tried install nvidia driver if YAST, if that one click install on website and manually downloading the drive on nvidia and nothing work, always sax2 says YOUR VGA CARD DON'T SUPPORT 3D ACCELERATION. I need 3D acceleration. If i cant solve this i need try other linux and i like opensuse

I think the problem is on sax2 but i dont know how fix it.

ps: nvidia driver work fine, only no 3d acceleration.

I tried install nvidia driver if YAST, if that one click install on website and manually downloading the drive on nvidia and nothing work, always sax2 says YOUR VGA CARD DON'T SUPPORT 3D ACCELERATION. I need 3D acceleration. If i cant solve this i need try other linux and i like opensuse

I think the problem is on sax2 but i dont know how fix it.

ps: nvidia driver work fine, only no 3d acceleration.
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Have you tried the driver installer from nvidia's website?
Download that, uninstall the driver that you installed with yast, and run the installer.

Also, run it from runlevel 3.

you can do it like this:
- ctrl+alt+f2
- login as root
- run "init 3"
- run the installer you downloaded
- when it asks you to download the pre-built module, say no and build the driver yourself (you need to have kernel source installed; gcc; make.. things like that.. you can install those if you haven't from yast)
- let the installer modify the x configuration files
- finish (exit the installer)
- run "sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia" (still as root in runlevel 3)
(at this point when sax enters it will use your new driver and say 3d is ok.. hopefully.. )
- save changes and exit sax
at this point, you can reboot by typeing "reboot" or go back to x using "init 5" command

Hope this works.. at least it did for me.. (i have a gf7900gtx though).

Cheers!

Ignore what sax2 says. If you get the nvidia logo on startup & direct rendering is enabled when you type "glxinfo | grep render" without quotes, into a command window, then you are good to go.

Have you tried the driver installer from nvidia's website?
Download that, uninstall the driver that you installed with yast, and run the installer.

Also, run it from runlevel 3.

you can do it like this:
- ctrl+alt+f2
- login as root
- run "init 3"
- run the installer you downloaded
- when it asks you to download the pre-built module, say no and build the driver yourself (you need to have kernel source installed; gcc; make.. things like that.. you can install those if you haven't from yast)
- let the installer modify the x configuration files
- finish (exit the installer)
- run "sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia" (still as root in runlevel 3)
(at this point when sax enters it will use your new driver and say 3d is ok.. hopefully.. )
- save changes and exit sax
at this point, you can reboot by typeing "reboot" or go back to x using "init 5" command

Hope this works.. at least it did for me.. (i have a gf7900gtx though).

Cheers!
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I had the same problem. When I type "glxinfo", it saysI have direct rendering. But, in sax2 it still says same thing, "Your Gcard does not support 3D Rendering"

It works. But you also said something about compiling it yourself. Exactly how would one do this? I know I'm to be in runlevel 3, because that's how I installed my Nvidia driver as well.

D.

Hey I've got the same card as you do. It is possible to make all that to work.

Like Sveboras said, try using the driver provided on nvidia's website.

I can even provide you 3 different drivers I have the URLs at home, so just wait a few hours until I come back.

I get the 3D acceleration in sax2, glxinfo and nvidia's driver configuration. It's just a matter of getting it right on the install, which is easy to miss I agree.

If you use nvidia's driver from their website, you need to compile, so you need the kernel, gcc and gcc++ and possibly some other libs (libstc++ maybe not sure though), but all that is in YAST, you can get the kernel-source (about 230megs), gcc and gcc++ from there. Not sure if all are required, but having all of them is not bad.

After install you can try "sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia" or I have found that "sax2 -r" alone seems to work as well. Then there could be some tweaks to perform in your XORG.CONF file, in my case some stuff did not get written in there so I manually added them.

You also have to run commands after installation to enable the 3D acceleration.

su -
nvidia-xconfig --composite
nvidia-xconfig --render-accel
nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals -d 24

You can take a look at http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA, which you possibly already did. Just try using nvidia's driver from their website. As I said I will get back to you on that.

Do you run 64-bits or 32-bits?

Like I said, sometimes it's a matter of trying different things or I would say "different ways".

Ok here are the links.

32bits 8600GT latest driver: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...32_169.07.html ***
32bits 8600GT previous version: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...32_169.04.html

64bits 8600GT latest driver: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...64_169.07.html
64bits 8600GT previous version: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...64_169.04.html

And in case you would want to try a driver for a different nvidia chip (who knows, sometimes it could work if nothing else does):

32bits: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display..._100.14.19.html
64bits: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display..._100.14.19.html

***Be aware there is a bug with this version under compiz-fusion. You have to edit the data.py file in the site-packages/fusion-icon folder and add the line "--no-libgl-fallback" in the arguments section. I can redirect you to the forum and thread explaining the details on that. It's possible you might have to do it with the .04 version as well.

Also, if you plan on running compiz-fusion, you might want to take a look at my lonely thread , I had quite a few problems making everything to run properly, I have written down the solutions to my problems.

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST...f=3&t=44765

Hopefully this, and Sveboras' steps, will guide you into your installation.

Also, be careful with kernel updates. I think you should stay with standard kernel in 10.3 and NOT run the yast software updates for the kernel. I have had issues with nvidia driver with the latest kernel update. I can't say 100%, cuz I did update xorg and other stuff at the same time, but when I reinstalled opensuse (due to that!), I excluded the kernel and xorg updates and all is fine.