On 2011/07/14 19:47 (GMT+0300) Stan Goodman composed:
Yes, Sany Bridge, as I have now found in my search. The Intellinux site says there is a Linux driver. Intel cautions against trying to compile the source code DYI, and refers one glibly to "your distribution". Bummer. There are Wincrap drivers, of course, for many generations of Windows.
I assume and hope that openSuSE will have such a driver in the reasonable future. In the meantime, I will see about occupying the sole PCI slot with a less exotic graphics card, or suffer with what I have, until the needed driver appears.
On the first graphic screen, I got to choose the graphics standard by selecting a function key (forgot wich), but there I had a free choice with no limitations. That led to a text screen, which confrontedd me with the very reduced selection.
That is effectively what I have done. In the face of my sturbbornness, the system gave up and defaulted to 1024x768x60.
I think this problem has been solved, in the sense that there is not a present real solution, and a straighforward workaround for the time being is to get an ATI card for the PCI slot.
Actually the problem may already have been resolved for Sandy Bridge's gfxchip without going to 12.1. Tumbleweed may have what you need (possibly more than just the "driver", maybe X11 updates and/or newer kernel as well), but you may need to ask on the Factory list if Google can't find you that answer.
You could try simply adding the Tumbleweed repo and doing 'zypper dup'. You might be pleasantly surprised. I've yet to discover any negative effects from adding Tumbleweed to 11.4. --
I can confirm lack of Sandy Bridge graphics support in stock 11.4. Had the opportunity to try it on a Dell Vostro 3750 (i3-2310) which gave me lots of graphics errors (though correct resolution). Same check using Ubuntu 11.04 (live - which by the way uses 2.6.38) worked with no issues at all. So not much, in terms of newer software, seems to be needed to make it work. I am also using Tumbleweed on my current machine (Samsung X360) and indeed it gives me no problems (except the still unresolved "Samsung" brightness issue in 2.6.39, as I posted in another thread). If you do try the Tumbleweed upgrades, I would be interested to hear the results. Thanks, K.-H.
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