SuSe 8.0 Question

[KROME]

just installed 8.0 and i love it the only bad thing is that i have no 3D support so i can t play Chromium nor Tuxcart or any 3D accelerated game but the wierd thing is that i was able to use this feature in 7.3 i think it has to do with the new version of Xfree86 4.2 is there anyway to change the settings. i have tried to use yast2 as well as Sax and sax2 but sax gives me a garbled screen when i try to configure it and sax2 doesnt let me change the settings it tests fine but when i restart x it doesnt work and yast2 doesnt help it wont let me do anything ethier

video card is a ATI Moblitiy M3 AGP X2 its on a compaq laptop 1800T
any suggestions?

*Note* its the retail version so the dvd and CD's are good

 

[KROME]

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[manly]

Since you paid good money for the product, how about testing out their installation support? Let us know if they do a good job (or otherwise).

You can always manually edit the sax2-generated /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4)? file to enable 3D support. I recall another of your posts on this problem where you said SuSE 7.3 worked fine in this regard.

If possible, I would retain the working XF86Config file from the previous installation (which is probably wiped out by now, sorry). I think 3D acceleration lives in the DRI module.

 

[Sapilas]

I installed suse 8 and i manage to setup veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy easily:

printer - hp 720c - which no other distro finds cause needs some special drivers
webcam - usb creative webcam go - it did all by itself ( it takes more time in windows, about 2 restarts)
winTV hauppage pci - very easily
g3 ti 200 - 3D enable - 1280x1024 24bpp
modem - diamond 56k

I have installed more than 20 times different distos, slackware,redhat,old suse versions, BUT never had such an easy configuration & full support.

Setting up windows takes more time.

About the 3D staff... I had to go to nvidia get latest drivers, install them and then run YaST2 to reconfigure it.

Finally, LINUX became simple .............~!

 

[KROME]

yeah i thats great for you but sucks for me ! haha

but yeah ive been going nuts trying to get the 3D video to work and i know that it has 3D support ive used Redhat7.0 as well as mandrake 8.0 and all have installed bueatifully on my laptop but this really sucks now that i go out and support them the product that i bought doesnt work correctly agghhh

any other suggestions the only other thing is that if i could get the drivers off my redhat cd then maybe it could work but how do go about doing that ?