On 07/20/2011 01:13 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
Stan Goodman<[email protected]> 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
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