3D acceleration - Disabled ?

NicK2oo6 · October 18, 2009, 5:59pm

Hi.
I have nVidia gForce 8800GT - installed drivers @ nVIDIA Repositories | openSUSE 11.1 @ kde 4.1.3. It seems to work just fine, but the 3D acceleration button is disabled @ sax2

http://i33.tinypic.com/9064h1.png

http://i34.tinypic.com/2j11s7b.png

openSUSE 11.1:~> cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf                                    
# /.../                                                                      
# SaX generated X11 config file                                              
# Created on: 2009-10-18T12:33:22+0300.                                      
#                                                                            
# Version: 8.1                                                               
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005                               
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#                                                                             
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)                                     
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!                                               
#                                                                             

Section "Files"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"        
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"          
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/URW"            
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"         
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"            
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"       
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"          
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled" 
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"      
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"     
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"                
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"              
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"          
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID"                   
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"     
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"    
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"   
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"  
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled" 
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"          
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"     
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"                 
  FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"                  
  InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"                           
  InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"                        
EndSection                                              

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
  Option       "ZapWarning" "on"        
EndSection                              

Section "Module"
  Load         "freetype"
  Load         "dbe"     
  Load         "dri"     
  Load         "glx"     
  Load         "extmod"  
EndSection               

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "kbd" 
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "us"     
  Option       "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"     
EndSection                              


Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "Buttons" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Name" "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"          
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"                    
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"               
EndSection                                        


Section "Monitor"
  Option       "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
  DisplaySize  340 270                      
  HorizSync    31-64                        
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"                 
  ModelName    "1280X1024@60HZ"             
  Option       "DPMS"                       
  Option       "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"  
  VendorName   "--> VESA"                   
  VertRefresh  50-60                        
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"                   
EndSection                                  


Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
EndSection               


Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 24
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15     
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"                                    
  EndSubSection                                                                           
  SubSection "Display"                                                                    
    Depth      16                                                                         
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"                                    
  EndSubSection                                                                           
  SubSection "Display"                                                                    
    Depth      24                                                                         
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"                                    
  EndSubSection                                                                           
  SubSection "Display"                                                                    
    Depth      8                                                                          
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"                                    
  EndSubSection                                                                           
  Device       "Device[0]"                                                                
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"                                                                
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"                                                               
EndSection                                                                                


Section "Device"
  BoardName    "GeForce 8800 GT"
  Driver       "nvidia"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Screen       0
  VendorName   "NVidia"
EndSection



Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  Option       "Clone" "off"
  Option       "Xinerama" "off"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection


Section "DRI"
    Group      "video"
    Mode       0660
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
  Option       "Composite" "on"
EndSection

Note that the monitor vendor is default, I use Horizon.

Thanks for your replies.

caf4926 · October 18, 2009, 7:46pm

You need to change the Monitor to LCD, if that’s what it is. Vesa is no good.
If 1280x1024 is you screen size then use that.
Accept the test
Logout and back in
Has this changed anything, check the 3D chck box again. If it isn’t marked, try it. The logout and back in.

If that doesn’t do it
Open a su termianl and do: sax2 -r

NicK2oo6 · October 18, 2009, 8:04pm

Hi, caf,
Your first sugestion don`t works, the second one works perfect!

sax2 -r
SaX: initializing please wait...
SaX: your current configuration will not be read in

SaX: access to your display has been granted
SPP: prepare device [0] profile: Depth24
SPP: prepare device [0] profile: NVidia
SPP: calling device [0] profile script: NVidia
SPP: prepare device [0] profile: NoModelines
SPP: prepare device [0] profile: Composite
SPP: including prepared profile(s)...
SPP: prepare device [0] profile: nobus
SPP: including prepared profile(s)...

SaX: startup
SaX: X-Server: :0.0 -> grant
SaX: using cache data...

Now I have enabled 3D acceleration. MANY THANKS !

http://i35.tinypic.com/o8i2ok.png

@Akoellh, hi. Now you see the differences, maybe you are right, I dont know, Im still new in linux/suse. I wanted to show that is change the 3d, now I can activate or disable.

Akoellh · October 18, 2009, 8:07pm

Why “now”?

You had it all the time, see your first screenshot.

In fact, I don’t even know how to disable 3D when the prorietary driver is correctly installed.

Akoellh · October 18, 2009, 8:22pm

Still this is irrelevant for the nvidia-driver as it does not use the dri infrastructure which is switched on/off by this checkbox AFAIK.

On my system, the checkbox is “greyed out” as in your first screenshot, still I have (of course) 3D.

Nvidia does a lot of implementation with their own, non “standard” extensions sax2 can not handle.