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XGL (The pretty eye candy that kicks Vista's butt)

XGL is not to be rolled out to the gereral end-user. While XGL is a stable system, it is still technically in Beta and is actively being developed. Therefore it is not offically supported and might break stuff. Also, installations are very specific to the hardware on the individual workstation, making it nearly impossible to implement a mass rollout.

The biggest problem with XGL is making sure you have OpenGL drivers for the video card. Only Intel video cards come with open-sourced OpenGL drivers, however both ATI and nVidia have proprietary drivers that you can install.

I have created ATI RPMs which are located in the Company repository. nVidia on the other hand, requires you to download an install script from their website.

ATI Graphics Card driver installation

Install the ATI drivers from the http://repository.domain.name/Custom repository using the command

machine:~ # yast2 -i fglrx_6_9_0_SLED10

Bring up a TTY screen using the key combination ALT-CTRL-F1.

Type in the commands:

machine:~ # init 3
machine:~ # ldconfig
machine:~ # aticonfig --initial –input/etc/X11/xorg.conf
machine:~ # sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
machine:~ # init 5

nVidia Graphic Card driver installation

Download the driver from the nVidia website

Bring up a TTY screen using the key combination ALT-CTRL-F1.

Type in the commands:

machine:~ # init 3
machine:~ # sh /path/to/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run
machine:~ # sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
machine:~ # init 5

Go to Control Panel | Desktop Effects and enable XGL.

Alternatively you can use the command

gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl