Can I get Hardware 3D enabled in SuSE 9.1?

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After I installed SuSE 9.1 I notice I don't have hardware acceleration, is there a different driver I should be using? Or am I plain out of luck for now?

Also, after I installed SuSE on my HD, I plugged in my other HD which has XP on it, (my dual boot basically consists of which HD I want to boot from, no boot loader needed :p) and it installed in SuSE just fine, but it doesn't show up in the mnt directory. I can't access anything on it, all my music and some of my movies are on that drive. As I recall, doesn't Linux usually mount the drives when you boot and you can access the partitions or w/e?

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Is it just an ATI thing? Also, I noticed that there are several R350 drivers in SuSE, I just used the ones they had setup, but perhaps one of the others is better? I have nooo clue.. and I don't feel like trying trial and error since I am not the fluent in text mode ;)

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To be honest, I never really had a problem getting Nvidia drivers to run in any distro, only ATI drivers. I don't know if it's just an ATI thing, but that's what I notice.

Besides the fact I believe Nvidia supports alt. OS's alot more than ATI does at this point. Again, that's just my opinion though.

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  StealthMode said:
After I installed SuSE 9.1 I notice I don't have hardware acceleration, is there a different driver I should be using? Or am I plain out of luck for now?

Also, after I installed SuSE on my HD, I plugged in my other HD which has XP on it, (my dual boot basically consists of which HD I want to boot from, no boot loader needed :p) and it installed in SuSE just fine, but it doesn't show up in the mnt directory. I can't access anything on it, all my music and some of my movies are on that drive. As I recall, doesn't Linux usually mount the drives when you boot and you can access the partitions or w/e?

I don't think there were any other questions, but there will be ater no doubt ;)

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Have no idea about ati i use Nvidia (:p)

But to get it mounted do this:

mkdir /mnt/hdb1
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1

To get it to mount atomatilcly u need to change your /etc/fstab not going in to thate here

This assumes u have a IDE drive, if you have SCSI change the hdb1 to sdb1 (i think, dont have SCSI drives)

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  LOC said:
Besides the fact I believe Nvidia supports alt. OS's alot more than ATI does at this point. Again, that's just my opinion though.

It's not an opinion. It's a fact! ;)

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if you have the driver installed you have to enable 3d on it. When i installed the nvidia driver it wasnt 3d by default. just go into sax2 and go to properties for your card then click enable 3d thats what i did and it works :)

Anyway if its way off the mark then just ignore my ramblings ;)

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After I installed SuSE 9.1 I notice I don't have hardware acceleration, is there a different driver I should be using? Or am I plain out of luck for now?

I use Mandrake 10 & ATI 9800 pro, but I believe you are going to need to get the ATI drivers 3.9.0 from the ati web site. You will then need to build them and install them.

After that, you "should" be okay. I had to go further and get a more updated kernel that resolved AGP issues with my SiS 648 FX mobo, then I had to patch the ATi drivers in order to make it compile. But, after some time, I have it running with no probs.

I suggest visiting the rage3d linux forum, there are several how-to posts there...

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  xxpor said:
Have no idea about ati i use Nvidia (:p)

But to get it mounted do this:

mkdir /mnt/hdb1
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1

To get it to mount atomatilcly u need to change your /etc/fstab not going in to thate here

This assumes u have a IDE drive, if you have SCSI change the hdb1 to sdb1 (i think, dont have SCSI drives)

I's an SATA drive. Not sure if that counts as SCSI in Linux or not though :ninja:

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I use Mandrake 10 & ATI 9800 pro, but I believe you are going to need to get the ATI drivers 3.9.0 from the ati web site. You will then need to build them and install them.

After that, you "should" be okay. I had to go further and get a more updated kernel that resolved AGP issues with my SiS 648 FX mobo, then I had to patch the ATi drivers in order to make it compile. But, after some time, I have it running with no probs.

I suggest visiting the rage3d linux forum, there are several how-to posts there...

I used the drivers that SUSE provided (via their FTP site) there are two packages and a README. If you follow the instructions in the README - its very straightforward (even for Linux n00bs like me)

SUSE FTP LINK

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I used the drivers that SUSE provided (via their FTP site) there are two packages and a README. If you follow the instructions in the README - its very straightforward (even for Linux n00bs like me)

SUSE FTP LINK

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The drivers that come with Mandrake 10 are supposed to have 3D acceleration, but due to my SiS mobo problem, I had to take the scenic route...

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the driver on the FTP site has instructions for enabling 3D on SuSe, and I did try it, I can't be certain it worked though as it completely failed to work for dual monitors, each display had a different driver installed. for linux drivers ati suck. my next card is gonna be an nVidia based on this.

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