Xgl Rocks

Recently I undertook the geek mission of getting Xgl working on my desktop at home. Xgl is the 3D accelerated xserver built on top of OpenGL.

Check it out at: Xgl on Wikipedia

I achieved my goal by upgrading my Suse installation from 10 to 10.1 (which was very smooth). To get Xgl working you need to choose Xgl and Compiz in Yast. Compiz is the 3d enabled window manager.

Getting Xgl working on my nvidia card was not as easy as I had hoped, however, after getting the drivers from nvidia and telling Sax to enable 3d acceleration, I got it working.

Later I installed Suse 10.1 on my Laptop which uses an Intel graphics card. Xgl and compiz worked out of the box!