Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 509

OpenGL Driver
If you are installing with YaST for the first time, 3D acceleration can be activated during
installation, provided YaST detects 3D support. For nVidia graphics chips, the nVidia
driver must be installed first. To do this, select the nVidia driver patch in YOU (YaST
Online Update). Due to license restrictions, the nVidia driver is not included in the
distribution.
If you update your system instead, the procedure for configuring 3D hardware support
is different. This depends on which OpenGL driver is used. Further details are provided
in the following section.
27.4.2 OpenGL Drivers
The OpenGL drivers nVidia and DRI can be configured easily with SaX2. For nVidia
adapters, the nVidia driver must be installed first. Enter the command 3Ddiag to check
if the configuration for nVidia or DRI is correct.
For security reasons, only users belonging to the group video are permitted to access
the 3D hardware. Therefore, make sure that all local users are members of this group.
Otherwise, the slow software rendering fallback of the OpenGL driver is used for
OpenGL applications. Use the command id to check whether the current user belongs
to the group video. If this is not the case, use YaST to add the user to the group.
27.4.3 The Diagnosis Tool 3Ddiag
The diagnosis tool 3Ddiag allows verification of the 3D configuration in SUSE Linux.
This is a command line tool that must be started in a terminal. Enter 3Ddiag -h to
list possible options for 3Ddiag.
To verify the X.Org configuration, the tool checks if the packages needed for 3D support
are installed and if the correct OpenGL library and GLX extension are used. Follow
Supported Hardware
*
Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550,
*
ATI Rage 128(Pro)/Radeon (up to 9250)
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