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Status on using NVidia card with Alienware M11x-R2? Intel 3d support option?

 

I have been able to follow the info in the Fedora forum posting to 
disable nvidia and only use the Intel card, with a significant drop in 
power consumption with the NVidia card turned off (thanks especially to 
docdrow for spelling that out so clearly):

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=248837&highlight=alienware&page=3

Though the forum is for Fedora, with a few minor differences I have it 
working under openSuSE 11.3.

But it appears everyone is now stuck trying to actually _use_ the Nvidia 
card.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=248837&highlight=alienware&page=5

Is this still the case for everyone?

Is there still is not any way to enable the Nvidia to actually be used 
yet?  

Is there a way to enable 3d support for the Intel video card at least?

Thanks for any guidance.