Graphics driver for i5 CPU / openSuSE v11.4

[Stan Goodman]

On 07/20/2011 01:13 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> Stan Goodman<stan.goodman at hashkedim.com>  writes:
>
> <quoted text reordered to address different points in sequence - OG>
>
>> If there are people who have dealt with the problem here
>> specifically with regard to openSuSE v11.4, I would like to open a
>> thread about this here.
> I have not dealt with it on openSuSE since I don't use the distro, but
> I have an i5 box with Fedora 14 at home so I went to check...
>
>> I am having difficulty in getting the needed driver, which is not
>> yet available through the usual repositories of openSuSE.
> What driver do you mean? Kernel driver? What version of the kernel
> does openSuSE 11.4 use? The stock i915 works for me.
If I omitted to specify the video driver, I have to apologize. I had 
spent the entire day, and part of yesterday, finding and trying to 
install the Sandy Bridge driver (which is not yet found in the normal 
YaST system). Shortly after I gave up and posted the note you read. I 
stumbled upon the one-click installation website, which supports the 
needed driver, and was able to install the thing within less than a 
minute. So, although I feel I wasted many hours unnecessarily, the up 
side is that my operating system is now usable graphically, and I can 
begin to grow back what remains of my hair.

Thanks for wanting to help.
>
>
> The only thing I can think of is that you have one of the very recent
> i5 CPUs (from the SandyBridge family). The code of i915 refers to
> SandyBridge in several places, but maybe it is buggy in some
> SandyBridge-specific way and a fix is not available yet. This is a
> pure guess: my i5 is Clarkdale (the previous family), and I feel no
> issues. I am not a heavy grapics user on that box though.
>
> What is the issue - what doesn't work for you? You are saying you
> can't *get* the driver - doesn't it come with the kernel? Have you
> tried a vanilla kernel?
>
> Or did you mean X driver? My X.org loads intel_drv.so quite happily. I
> think in openSuSE the package name is xorg-x11-driver-video. I can't
> easily verify it myself, but a quick google showed me it was there for
> the most modern i5 CPUs (SandyBridge, etc.). See, e.g., the edit on
> top of this page:
>
> http://lslezak.blogspot.com/2011/04/installing-latest-intel-graphics-driver.html
>
> It sounds like you just need to pull the package from the updates
> repository.
>
>> I know that there is an available driver on the "Tumbleweed"
>> repositories, but I am having difficulty in interpreting some of the
>> advice I am getting elsewhere.
> I am afraid that you need to be more specific if you are looking for
> useful information.
>


-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel