Cant enable OpenGL on SuSE 8.2 w/ Geforce 4 Ti 4600
 

Hello, I did search and couldnt find a situation like this. I've installed the nvidia kernel and glx driver and the latest driver. .they all seemed to install fine but I cant enable the 3D settings in Sax2. It tells me that i must use the commercial driver from nvidia which I have installed. .. I've also made sure my xfree86 config file is correct. I've tried using the nvidia-installer utility and doing it manuelly and yes I did exit X when I did this. I'm out of ideas. Any help would be appreciated.

Please post your XFree logs (from /var/log/XFree86.0.logs file - if your log is long, remove the parts about mouse and so on if you're able to locate them).

DOUBLE Check....

I seem to remember that SuSE say 3D may work but appear to not be enabled..... Have you updated your distro lately with Yast...there have been fixes for this I think. Just try playing a game.

i had the same problem
 

I have 8.2 pro with a geforce FX 5200
Try downloading the driver from SuSE's update thingy, rather than going to nvidia.com and doing it.
It fixed mine.

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
Option "RandR" "on"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "v4l"
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "Keyboard"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "MapName" "Standard Keyboard [ pc104 ]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "ButtonNumber" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Name" "Autodetection"
Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
Option "CalcAlgorithm" "CheckDesktopGeometry"
DisplaySize 320 240
HorizSync 27-85
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "M781S"
Option "DPMS"
VendorName "DELL"
VertRefresh 50-160
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection





Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection


Section "Device"
BoardName "GeForce4 Ti 4600"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Screen 0
Option "Rotate" "off"
VendorName "NVidia"
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection

This is my XF86Config file. I just recently reinstalled SuSE so I have done all the online updates and I was able to play Unreal Tournement 2003 just fine, but now it hard crashes my system evertime i try to load it. And I get really low frame rates in tux racer and I have a pretty decent system. At one point I had all of this working fine, playing UT with maxed out settings. .and Sax said OpenGL was enabled. .

Maybe my hardware is just dying its a p4 1.3. My graphics card could be failing or something, i've read alot on this and cant seem to fix it. And a few months ago i could play ut2003 with maxed out graphical settings.