Issue with Intel HD graphics driver

Hi,

I recently removed the Nvidia card from my work computer, and switched to the onboard intel. The reason for this is that the Nvidia graphic dirvers were not compiling agains the xen kernel which I am planning to use(I also had an old ati card available but the graphics on that were blurry for some reason).

After I made the switch, I can't seem to get the system to use the intel driver for opengl. Whatever I do, I get no opengl acceleration. In KDE the effects I can get them to work with xrender but not with OpenGL. I would prefer to have 3d accel up and running for the performance in GUI but so far I am out of luck.

After trying my luck with the xf86 intel package, I removed it in yast, and manually compiled the driver. The configuration, make and make install went ahead without issues (except that make install put the drv.so in a wrong folder, it used /usr/local/lib64, instead of /usr/lib64). The x server loads the driver without problem(or so it seems) but I still don't get any acceleration. I also tried altering the xorg.conf.d/50-device but that still didn't help. Am I doing anything wrong?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,