AIGLX

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Accelerated Indirect GLX ("AIGLX") is an open source project founded by Red Hat and the Fedora Linux community to allow accelerated indirect GLX rendering capabilities to X.Org and DRI drivers. This allows remote X clients to get fully hardware accelerated rendering over the GLX protocol; coincidentally, this development was required for OpenGL compositing window managers (such as Compiz or Beryl) to function with hardware acceleration.

openSUSE 11.0 and newer

AIGLX is enabled by default, so nothing needs to be done to enable it. Just install the necessary drivers in case you have an ATI or NVIDIA card. For other graphics cards, just make sure that you have 3D Acceleration enabled in YaST -> Hardware -> Monitor.

openSUSE 10.3

Install the Necessary Graphics Card Drivers

• If you have an NVIDIA card, see NVIDIA
• If you have an ATI card, see ATI
• For modern Intel cards, just make sure that you have 3D Acceleration enabled in YaST -> Hardware -> Monitor.

Ensure that Xgl is disabled

You cannot properly run AIGLX and Xgl at the same time, so to ensure that you do not have it enabled, please:

Enabling Render Acceleration and Composite

For NVIDIA cards

Execute the following commands (as root):

Enabling AIGLX

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add, to the ServerLayout section, the following line:

Option   "aiglx"    "true"  

Also add the following line to the Module section:

Load     "glx"
Load     "dri"
Load     "dbe"

Also add the following line to the Device section:

Option   "XAANoOfscreenPixmaps"    "true"  

Also add the following line to the Extensions section:

Option   "Composite"  "Enable"

Now save the file.

Restart X

Now restart X (the display server), by simply logging out, then logging back in.

See Also

• AIGLX on Intel on Compiz Fusion wiki

Passed QA check: Fsundermeyer 11:45, 12 June 2009 (UTC)