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My bad, the drivers are on the suse site somewhere, i would give you the link but my history got cleared accidentally,the drivers were uploaded on the 17. It comes with a kernal patch as well and gives you instructions on compiling it! I;m a total noob too and i did it. Search on the suse site for i586 9.2 ati drivers or something along that line.
I have downloaded the ATI drivers from 17/02 and followed the instructions to the letter to install. Everything appears to be OK, can anyone advise how I can tell without loading any games how I can determine whether 3D is enabled.
I have run the glxgears programs and I get the following:
With that kind of frames I am sure you have it working, but you can double check by typing "glxinfo" at the command promt. If it is working you will see something like "direct rendering: yes".
I have checked with glxinfo and it does show "direct rendering: yes", so it's working fine.
Just a note to anyone else with ATI graphic cards, the display drivers released on the 17th Feb work fine .. just remember to follow the instructions to the letter.
I think I've followed all the steps in the readme, but it won't let me enable 3D acceleration in Sax and in glxinfo it says direct rendering: no. I was wondering if there was anything I could do, or anyway to remove the ATI drivers so that I could go back and try it all again.
EDIT: I messed around some more with it and it works fine now
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