How do i enable 3d graphics support?

[striker0204]

i know for a fact my graphics card supports it. cuz i ran it on xp, but when trying to run assault cube and motox3d or whatever, it says it needs 3d graphics.

how do i enable/set it up?

[daark.child]

If you are sure 3D is supported (and you are using a driver that supports 3D), run sax2 and choose the option to enable 3D.

[gogalthorp]

Have you installed the manufactures drivers??

If you have the 3D should be set on by default

What card and chip set??

[striker0204]

i cant check exactly what chipset now(heres the reason:http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sus...r-quickly.html) , but im pretty sure i have a geforce 5400. or 6400. either way, it can even handle source soo im sure that a little piece of crap game would run with no probs.

and as far as the manufacturers driver cd's, i dont have them. i got my updates from nvidea.com or whatever. i think intel, but either way. i got it from there and just installed it through the .rpm package.


im pretty much slowly but surely getting my computer back on its feet. just up until a few hours ago, had no sound for almost a month =/

[daark.child]

The manufacturers discs are probably useless if you are running Linux. You need to install the official nvidia driver, which you can get from Welcome to NVIDIA - World Leader in Visual Computing Technologies. Once you have installed the driver, you then need to run sax2 and it should detect the new nvidia driver (alternatively you can edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the driver from nv to nvidia). Another option would be to follow the instructions at the opensuse website.

[scrarfussi]

you could try this
Nvidia Installer HOWTO for SUSE LINUX users

[striker0204]

heres my graphics card info... sax2 told me this

geforce FX 5200 (0x0322

[striker0204]

could anyone help me with this?

[daark.child]

Did you follow the guide on how to install nvidia drivers in the link that was posted by scrarfussi?

[striker0204]

dark i did, but my card is not listed.

EDIT:
Matter of fact, i did a CTRL-F in ff to find it like that, and my card showed up. HOWEVER, its under the option of opensuse 10.1

5. SUSE LINUX 10.1-IA32 / SLES10-IA32 / SLED10-IA32

should i use that one anyway even if i dont have that version? i have 10.2