Comments on: Suse Linux 10.1 Goes 3D http://cybernetnews.com/suse-linux-101-goes-3d/ Technology News Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:03:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymoushttp://cybernetnews.com/suse-linux-101-goes-3d/#comment-2891 Anonymous Tue, 23 May 2006 17:33:14 +0000 http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/05/23/suse-linux-101-goes-3d/#comment-2891 Yes this was one of the cool features of 10.1 - although if you want to try it, you are better off downloading one of the XGL Live CD distros, which work out of the box (at least on NVidia).After you try the Live CD you can decide whether the features are worth the very manual process of enabling this on Suse, which involves installing the proprietary NVidia drivers and manually editing your X config to use xgl rather then xorg.If you arent an expert at x configuration, this might break your x config in some very difficult to fix ways that arent straightforward to rollback.IMHO the features are cool but add no significant usability whatsoever, and likely nullify the powersaving features of my 3D card and perhaps CPU. Yes this was one of the cool features of 10.1 – although if you want to try it, you are better off downloading one of the XGL Live CD distros, which work out of the box (at least on NVidia).

After you try the Live CD you can decide whether the features are worth the very manual process of enabling this on Suse, which involves installing the proprietary NVidia drivers and manually editing your X config to use xgl rather then xorg.

If you arent an expert at x configuration, this might break your x config in some very difficult to fix ways that arent straightforward to rollback.

IMHO the features are cool but add no significant usability whatsoever, and likely nullify the powersaving features of my 3D card and perhaps CPU.

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