enable 3D acceleration

[x452]

Hie, am fairly new to linux so lot of help is needed. I would like to enable my 3D but the check box on my sax2 is greyed out. is there a way to tweek this manually or in some config file

my sysinfo
OS: Linux 2.6.18.2-34-default i686
System: openSUSE 10.2 (i586)
KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45"

Display Info
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
Model:
Driver: unknown

VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV530LE [Radeon X1600]
Driver "kbd"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "fglrx"


i downloaded an ATI driver a while back when my screen resolution was not working and that's now fine though it says my card is VESA Framebuffer Graphics, don't know if it should say that if its ATI

[gogalthorp]

Check this out

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sus...r-problem.html

Try running glxgears from a console. See what frame rates are reported. low 100 or under no acceleration above or near 1000 acceleration is on.

[x452]

i ran the gears and got
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
3873 frames in 5.0 seconds = 773.577 FPS
3620 frames in 5.1 seconds = 715.771 FPS
3960 frames in 5.2 seconds = 768.186 FPS
3461 frames in 5.0 seconds = 690.896 FPS
3840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 766.555 FPS
4812 frames in 5.0 seconds = 962.400 FPS
4943 frames in 5.1 seconds = 978.401 FPS
4800 frames in 5.0 seconds = 955.773 FPS

but my games inform me that i have no 3D,

glxinfo gives me
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: Mesa Home Page
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)
and not
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON X850 PRO Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6286 (8.33.6)

so i am going to try reinstalling the drivers like in the tutorial says