Stan Goodman wrote: [snip]
But if you say that Intel support for their chip is "right around the corner", that opens up a more appealing possibility. Since you seem to know the neighborhood and its corners, and I don't, can you give us a clue of what "right around" means? And how confident your are about your estimate?
I have used both ATI and Nvidia, but not Intel so I am not quite as knowledgeable in the area as I probably "sound". I think Intel provided the guy at Phoronix with a laptop to help with testing out and assisting with fixes. For the last couple of months, or so, he has pretty well provided a fairly up-to-date running account of the status of Intel drivers. I've been interested in this and reading up on it because I am thinking about a new desktop box about the time Ivy Bridge comes out. An example: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_windows_sna&num=1
The driver that the system has chosen as its best shot is not impossible to work with, for simple purposes anyway. I can view film clips on the websites I use for news, and the Web in general is not suffering. The difficulty so far is pop-up menus that have an artifact that makes them hard or impossible to read (thin white bars, horizontal and vertical) obscuring the text of the menu; that has got to go. But I can tolerate it for a time, if I have some notion of how much time is involved.
What I would do if it were me is essentially what Felix said in his [OT: Sandy Bridge] post. Getting ahold of all the freshest source code for everything needed and building it yourself is probably not a good idea for any one of several reasons. But going the route Felix suggested will get you newer Intel drivers than what you currently have, and which just might make enough difference for now. It's also the easiest thing you can do right away. Whether it will be a magic silver bullet, or not, I can't really say. If it improves your situation that's great, if not time for plan "B". :-) -Mike [snip] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org