Yast is an internal product of SUSE and will probably use the most conservative Working device driver for an properly working installation.
If you want to change the driver, use SaX2 or Yast and change the driver to one that you will work best.
The VESA driver works with most everything. That is why it is used.
Don't be surprised that with the driver that is assigned for your video card does not work as well as the VESA driver.
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: John Shane
Subj: [SLE] vesafb instead of intelfb?
Date: Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:37 pm
Size: 974 bytes
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
After installing Suse 9.3 on my ThinkPad X30 laptop with an Intel graphics
adapter, I find that dmesg tells me that the 2.6.11.4-20a-default kernel
is using the vesa frame buffer driver instead of intelfb. Does 9.3 always
install the vesa frame buffer instead of an adapter-specific driver?
Wouldn't the adapter-specific driver be better? Assuming that intelfb
would be better, how do I make the change? YAST doesn't seem to know
about either one. Any pointers would be appreciated. John
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xf0080000, using 3750k,
total 8000k vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=7
vesafb: protected mode interface info at 00ff:44f0
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
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