Check for 3D Drivers on Login or install on Startup?

Hi.
I have a question, in Ubuntu after the installation, when i login, Ubuntu asks to install 3D Drivers for my grapics card.
Can i make a script in openSUSE to do this as well?
Or even better, check for drivers on startup and then install the drivers for the graphics card on boot.
This will be great, when it can be done.

Thanks in advance.

On 08/16/2011 09:06 PM, ryanrio95 wrote:
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> This will be great, when it can be done.

depending on your graphics card 3D may or may not be automatic…if you
have an ATI or nvidia you might benefit from installing a closed source
driver, see http://tinyurl.com/37v9y7m for help on getting that done…

depending on your card it might be as easy as clicking a “1-Click
Install” button…or more frustrating…have a look…

and, just a word of free advice: not everything you learned on ubuntu
(or any other distro) will automatically work here…so, you are SMART
to ask!!

and, there is a thread specificially for folks coming over from
Ubuntu…check it out: http://tinyurl.com/ubuntu-to-openSUSE

and, a whole big section in the how-to forum for new to openSUSE folks
here: http://tinyurl.com/32g4nmp

-=welcome=- and keep asking–soon you will be Having a lot of fun, too.


DD
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobile” of operating systems!

Yes it can be done. You’ll just have to check the type of the graphic card and, if it’s ATI or nvidia, install the fglrx or nvidia drivers either from repo or by compiling the module. On ATI systems, I just run atiupgrade](http://forums.opensuse.org/content/46-ati-driver-atiupgrade.html) right after the installation. Having a single script for both ATI and nvidia or a script calling one of two scripts depending on the detected graphics card is easy. If openSUSE doesn’t do it by default - the same way as Ubuntu does - it must be because of some license reasons, I guess.

On 08/16/2011 04:06 PM, please try again wrote:
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> ryanrio95;2375564 Wrote:
>> Hi.
>> I have a question, in Ubuntu after the installation, when i login,
>> Ubuntu asks to install 3D Drivers for my grapics card.
>> Can i make a script in openSUSE to do this as well?
>> Or even better, check for drivers on startup and then install the
>> drivers for the graphics card on boot.
>> This will be great, when it can be done.
>>
>
> Yes it can be done. You’ll just have to check the type of the graphic
> card and, if it’s ATI or nvidia, install the fglrx or nvidia drivers
> either from repo or by compiling the module. On ATI systems, I just run
> ‘atiupgrade
> (http://forums.opensuse.org/content/46-ati-driver-atiupgrade.html) right
> after the installation. Having a single script for both ATI and nvidia
> or a script calling one of two scripts depending on the detected
> graphics card is easy. If openSUSE doesn’t do it by default - the same
> way as Ubuntu does - it must be because of some license reasons, I
> guess.

The difference between Ubuntu and openSUSE is policy. The “open” part means
exactly that. No closed-source code will ever be distributed by openSUSE. All
the proprietary packages such as the 3D drivers for graphics hardware that are
available as packages are hosted on 3rd-party sites. It is not difficult to get
them, but they never come from openSUSE.

Thanks for the help.
My Gnome 3 is running well now.
But are these drivers included in Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop?
Because SLED isn’ t opensource?

Regards, Ryan

SLED/SLES is for the most part Opensource. But some non-open things may be included. OpenSUSE as delivered is 100% open. But you can add non open to it if you wish.

AFAIK SLED/SLES does not normally include the graphic drivers in question but like OpenSUSE they can be installed. In some cases SLED my come preinstalled with the required proprietary drivers for the hardware.