> There has been recent talk of a project to write open source drivers for > nvidia, including the 3d acceleration and other features. Holding your > breath would be presumptuous at this stage :-)
Yep. I would really like to dispense with that nvidia propritory stuff, but I don't see it happening soon. The opensource nvidia driver currently doesn't support 3D at all. Heck it doesn't even support 2D at more than 1280x1024! Useless. Older versions had stability issues (SuSE 9.3 has). In openSUSE 10.2, installing the nvidia driver amounts to pasting a repository URL (prominently mentioned on en.opensuse.org) into yast and installing a kmp package. Done, works. Configuring xinerama on SUSE 9.3 (nvidia card + driver) was easy but needs a workaround (something like add a fake second card) due to a bug in yast. On 10.2 I'd expect it to be trivial, but I don't have 2 monitors to try. If you're a sorry bugger stuck with an Intel 945 (or whatever it was), I suspect only a lot of googling, trial and error, intuition, and others with the same hardware and 2 monitors will getit working for you. Btw I would avoid using 2 monitors of different pixel size. That just smells like begging for trouble to me. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
