Nvidia Geforce 6600 strange problem with graphics openSUSE 12.3

A wild speculative idea … (with the emphasis on ‘speculative’ ) … I noted in another thread a user (with different nvidia hardware) added their user to the ‘video’ group, and after a reboot had openGL acceleration working.

Now on my PC my user by default is in group ‘video’ … and I have no idea why this would not be the nominal case.

So you could check that. As I note - this is a wild speculative idea that your user may not be part of that group.

Adding users to different group can be done in YaST > Security and Users > User and Group Mangement > Users > Edit [note it is likely your user is already in group video].

I have NO more ideas other than that.