I like NVidia’s hardware acceleration, but I’ve only gotten it to work when I compile their drivers myself - and that always gives the fastest 3D performance!
NVidia is what I always use, so I have the procedure down for compiling their drivers custom for your system - I find this easier than using YaST. Go to NVidia’s website and download their Linux driver (foo-bar-pkg2.run) and put it in your home directory. Use the file manager to change it’s properties and check the box “is executable.” Go to YaST and install the gcc compiler suite (it’s probably already installed). Then log off (not shut down) SuSE, then in the lower left-hand part of the logon screen, there’s a menu option to do a “console” login. This logs you into the command line. Log in as root, and:
#> cd /home/yourname
Then do
#> ./foo-bar-pkg2.run
It will ask you if you want to install the drivers - answer “yes” to everything and it will compile all drivers for your system. Tell it you want to install the drivers also and it will modify the system files. After you will be at the root prompt again. (at this point I can’t recall how to get back to the KDE logon screen - maybe it’s “exit” or else I just “reboot”)
After you log back on as yourself, you can run “nvidia-settings” and tell it how you want your monitors configured. Likely you have the wrong colors. If something has gone bzorken, you can logon as root again and
#> cd /etc/X11
#> ls
#> rm xorg.conf
There will be several other copies: xorg.conf.backup, xorg.conf.saxsave, xorg.conf.install, … just do:
#> mv xorg.conf.install xorg.conf
or
#> cp xorg.conf.install xorg.conf
…then reboot. (You can also try the other copies of xorg.conf.XXX.) You will be back where you started and you can try another fix, though I’ve had good luck with this on all my NVidia systems using 3D since the days of SuSE 10.1.
;)Patti:)