12.2 OpenSuse Display Problem?

English Hardware
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Hi,

Does anyone know if OpenSuse 12.2 will be able to resolve the current screen resolution problem associated with the Intel(R) G45/G43 Express Chipset? Previous releases of OpenSuse failed on Sony Vaio VGC-JS1E Desktop machines with an integrated Intel(R) G45/G43 Express Chipset display driver. The desired standard screen resolution for this machine - 1680x1050 - could never be achieved making OpenSuse <12.1 sadly unusable: creating instead, an ugly monitor display with wide areas of the screen greyed out and unusable. No other distros could achieve this ‘simple’ task! I for one (and I suspect many other people with similar machine display configurations) hope to be able to install OpenSuse. Now, if OpenSuse could be the only distro to achieve this then … ?

mapwiz

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It won’t be an issue unique to openSUSE. That is, it will be a kernel issue (with the intel driver).

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Yes, that’s what I said. It’s a problem that is not unique to OpenSuse. But, does the OpenSuse 12.2 version include a kernel that overcomes this problem?

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Unless the bug has been reported, then maybe not… which is all the more reason to test and report bugs.

Anyway, openSUSE 12.2 RC2 is now using version 2.20.0

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.20.0](http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2012-July/002004.html)

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Then this sounds like good newslol!.

mapwiz