REPOST: How to use 3D support with SuSE Linux ?

From: gurdude (gurdude-a-with-a-circle-yahoo-dot-com)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 21:39:18 -0400

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Situation: I want to use the 3D support of my motherboard with SuSE Linux
to start several applications that use this functionality (e.g. the crawling
ant screensaver). I am positive that the motherboard (Intel) supports 3D,
as I've run Fedora Core 1 in the past without any 3D hitches.

Running 3Ddiag in the terminal, I get the following....

Tests for XFree86 configuration:
  Config File /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done.
  Driver ... done.
  Color Depth ... done.
  Extensions ... failed!
================================================================
3D Hardware acceleration is not used. To use 3D
Hardware acceleration please specify these entries

Load "dri"

in the Section "Module" of your /etc/X11/XF86Config.
================================================================

I next go to the "Module" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config: and add the last
(Load "dri") line, so that it looks like this:

Section "Module"
  Load "type1"
  Load "speedo"
  Load "extmod"
  Load "freetype"
  Load "glx"
  Load "dri"
EndSection

Finally, to test my configuration regarding the 3D feature, I use the
command
glxinfo | grep rendering

to test if 3D is activated. The output is dissappointing, and reads:

direct rendering: No

What am I doing wrong? Please help.
-G

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