[TriLUG] SUSE 9 question about YaST & 3d acceleration mode

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On Sunday 30 November 2003 07:20 pm, Dan Smith wrote:
> Good evening!  This weekend, I installed SUSE 9 on a second hd (Win2K
> other OS) with dual boot option.  I'm defaulting to KDE if that matters.
>
> I have a NVIDIA GeForce256 with 32mb ram, downloaded the 3d driver from
> NVIDIA (not distributed with SUSE 9), and installed with no problem.  I
> started X, and then tried to activate the 3d acceleration in YaST.  YaST
> goes through the test process, and confirms 3d acceleration will be
> available after restart.
>
> PROBLEM:  I restart, and the 3d acceleration is still disabled.  It
> should have been retained.
>
> I'm not an admin, just a dangerous enthusiast salivating to ditch M$.
> So, the only way I know to restart is to either logoff and login again,
> or to do a full system restart.  Is this the problem with why the
> setting is not retained?
>
> If not, should someone know how to remedy, or  be able to provide
> detailed directions on the proper way to manually edit the xf86config
> (isn't it this file?), I would be immensely grateful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan

I don't run SuSe or have the same video card, but I do use 3D acceleration -  
this is what I have in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file. Hope it helps.

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "Matrox"
    BoardName "Matrox Millennium G550 DualHead"
    Driver "mga"
    VideoRam 32768
    Screen 0
    BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
    Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
    Load "extmod"
    Load "type1"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "glx" # 3D layer
    Load "dri" # direct rendering
EndSection