3-D desktop on SuSe?

Does anyone know what package the 3-D desktop is for SuSe Linux? Also... if it's already there... how do I configure it because it looks bad@$$

None at hand to play with.. And as I'm stuck on AGP I'm not in a hurry to upgrade without a new motherboard

That seems a little strange. It might possibly depend on a few libraries but...

I had another look and this Novell guide states at the top Gnome and/or KDE.

Failing that I suspect Linux_0 would know the answers...

Ouch....

It looks to me that the x server is not configured or at the very least it is not configured for automatic login. I'm really sorry if that link has left your system like that. I hope you can appreciate that I'm not in a position to test articles like that.

I'll drop Linux_0 a line and see if he has any suggestions as I hate to see a system down.

I sent him a PM anyhow. He's a really helpful guy and it might just be a couple of commands to see it right. You can always boot off a live CD to be able to edit the config files.

It was a long time ago since I played with these sorts of things on Unix boxes so I would be out of my depth trying to get in much deeper here. I'm glad you haven't lost any data. As Geeky pointed out just the other day as he did a re-install, its all a learning curve... Besides there are plenty of people who end up with broken windows boxes...

Up to you how you want to proceed. If you just want a quick play with XGL there are a couple of LiveCD distros that offer it. I know I always plug it but Ubuntu offers it as a click and install package, there are things it does very differently to Suse but it is an alternative.

If I can help I will. If I don't know I'll say. Glad no harm done

A little off topic but..

Just a quick question on hardware for XGL. Is something like the integrated Intel on board stuff up to running this at any sort of pace? I only ask as I've seen a few posts lately about how good the drivers are getting for the Intel stuff.

Ok, then with an NVidia card, it's mucho easier since the latest NVidia drivers have built-in AIGLX-support.

Basically, you don't, I repeat, don't need to install XGL at all, just use X. Basically, I will try to, through the magic of ASCII graphics, show the difference between XGL (older NVidia binaries, ATI binaries) and built-in AIGLX (newer NVidia binaries, open-source ATI, open-source Intel for chipsets i810 and later)

[code:1e38e5ef7d]
XGL

[Card]<->[Driver]<-->[3d XGL Server]<-->[Graphical Desktop]
\->[Other X libs]------/

Built-in AIGLX
[Card]<->[Driver+AIGLX]<->[Regular X Server w/ new libs]<->[Graphical Desktop]
[/code:1e38e5ef7d]

As such, you should not need to install XGL, rather just install compiz or beryl, make some slight changes to X to enable and start AIGLX capability, and you should be golden (except when viewing Swing applets, let me know if you need a custom Java build ) Here's a pertinent HOW-TO I found.

and that is the most important part
learning and loving it!!

Windows is dead!
Long Live Linux!

Lol... I'm putting Vista Ultimate on my new comp... and SuSe as well. I'm only using Vista because... read/writing to NTFS is a pain with linux... as I found out.

Coolness, I'll definitely check that out.