SUSE no longer distributes commercial software therefore NVIDIA users are left to load and install the 3D acceleration graphics driver from the nVidia
site manually.
I first checked to see if SUSE 10.3 retail edition would be able to load the NVidia 3D driver using Yast/Sax2 but no luck as soon as I clicked on Hardware->Graphics card & monitor I got this message:
Before installing the driver I ran glxgears from the konsole command line as a reference to check the effect of 3D acceleration:
martin@suse103:~> glxgears
3984 frames in 5.0 seconds = 796.692 FPS
4590 frames in 5.0 seconds = 917.879 FPS
4856 frames in 5.0 seconds = 971.039 FPS
4919 frames in 5.0 seconds = 983.608 FPS
4921 frames in 5.0 seconds = 984.162 FPS
4918 frames in 5.0 seconds = 983.462 FPS |
We will load the driver from a repository, to do this start Yast and goto:
Software -> Community Repositories
Select NVIDIA Repository:
I then got the following message:
I clicked on "Trust and Import the Key"
This has added the repository, we now need to download the driver from it, YaST should still be open so click on "Software Management":
Now search for 'nvidia' and select-
- nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default
- x11-video-nvidiaG01
and click on 'Accept'
Then wait while the drivers are installed:
We then tell the kernel to use this driver, to do this start the konsole command line, login as root and type 'modprobe nvidia'.
martin@suse103:~> su root
Password:
suse103:/home/martin # modprobe nvidia |
Restart the computer to use the new driver.
To check that we are using the new driver use:
YAST -> Hardware->Graphics card & monitor
We can also confirm that the frame rate is a lot higher by running glxgears again:
martin@suse103:~> glxgears
21235 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4246.922 FPS
21345 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4268.949 FPS
21325 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4264.972 FPS
17758 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3551.572 FPS
21307 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4261.250 FPS
21277 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4255.223 FPS |
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I am working on a project which uses these principles, if you would like
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