Suse 12.1 Intel vieo driver

[pastet89]

Hi

Has somebody has succeeded to install the intel video driver on OpenSuse 12.1?
I tried a lot of times, it seems it is going necesarily trough libdrm 2.4.31, which's version is not available for Suse. Latest available version for suse is 2.4.24.

[deano_ferrari]

The intel driver is included as part of the kernel. Are you referring to building a newer version?

[pastet89]

Well, if it is included, I am not really satisfied with it. My last distro was Ubuntu 9.10 and there I had a briliant picture quality. Now it is definatelly what it was before. And I am suprprised, because OpenSuse is so new distro, and Ubuntu 9.10 was releeased in 2009.
Is there any way to get adequate driver?

Thanks for your time anyway.

[deano_ferrari]

You need to clarify with a little more detail.

1.What difference in picture quality are you noticing? Is your display running at the optimal resolution?

2.What intel graphics chipset do you have? Is it using the intel driver, or maybe only a framebuffer driver is in use?

/sbin/lspci -nnk

*Post the entry pertaining to your graphics
Maybe the xrandr output will be ueful too

xrandr

[pastet89]

Hi

1. Well, comparing to one and same youtube videos, for example, when I was watching them on my Ubuntu 9.10 in the bigger screen mode, the picture was sharp and with small pixels. Now the same videos are foggy and I can see that the pixels are bigger. My display is running at the only one posssible resoultion for my screen - 1366x768. Actually I would prefer some lower resolution, but the other lower available are with different ratio than the used by my screen. (My screen is 16:9 and the other available resoultions are 4:3).
2. Output:

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 09)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1867]
        Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 09)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1862]
        Kernel driver in use: i915
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 09)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1862]
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1867]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1867]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1867]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1867]
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Santa Cruz Operation Device [1111:1043]
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:294a] (rev 03)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1867]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1867]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1867]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1867]                                                                                                                                     
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd                                                                                                                                                          
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)                                                                                                       
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller [8086:2919] (rev 03)                                                                                                
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1867]                                                                                                                                     
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller [8086:2928] (rev 03)                                                                                       
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1867]                                                                                                                                     
        Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
00:1f.5 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller [8086:292d] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1867]
        Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: AzureWave AW-NE785 / AW-NE785H 802.11bgn Wireless Full or Half-size Mini PCIe Card [1a3b:1089]
        Kernel driver in use: ath9k
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet [1969:1026] (rev b0)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:14f5]
        Kernel driver in use: ATL1E

and

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
   1366x768       60.0*+
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3     56.2  
   640x480        59.9  
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)