3d accelerator unknown in opensuse 12.3, intel 3rd gen i5 processor

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I have purchased new fujitsu lifebook lh532 laptop with intel core i5 3rd gen with intel hd 4000 graphics processor.
When i saw system information using “Kinfocenter”, i saw that driver vendor is intel open source center and “renderer is mesa IVY bridge”.
but 3d accelerator is unknown.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/191/3dacceleration.png/

Please see the image and provide some information.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/191/3dacceleration.png/

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But what is the problem? If your only problem is that it shows unknown,
that is no problem it is normal for the intel cards.
To be sure that it is accelerated open a terminal like konsole or xterm
and type


glxinfo | grep -i direct

that should give you a “direct rendering: yes” line.
(glxinfo is part of the package Mesa-demo-x if your system cannot find
the command).

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PC: oS 12.3 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.10.0 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.3 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.10.0 | HD 3000
HannsBook: oS 12.3 x86_64 | SU4100@1.3GHz | 2GB | KDE 4.10.0 | GMA4500

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I see the same thing with the nVIDIA driver loaded or when using the open source nouveau driver. I think that KinfoCenter does not know how to determine the 3D driver being used. Here are a couple of bash scripts to load older programs that do better so far with finding the graphics info in my opinion.

H.I. Hardware Information - A Bash script to install and run inxi with default options! - Blogs - openSUSE Forums and S.A.K.S.I. - SUSE Automated KDE Sysinfo Installer - Version 1.0.0 for openSUSE 12.3 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

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Thanks for reply.
I have another doubt. processor’s clock speed is 2.5ghz to 3.2ghz. but how to check whether the clock speed is boosting ? how turbo boost technology works in linux and how to verify it ?

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All done automagically by the kernel.
You could verify this by installing/using some system-monitor widget/applet.

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You can set and view your CPU clock speed Governor with this bash script: C.F.U. - CPU Frequency Utilitiy - Version 1.10 - For use with the cpufrequtils package - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

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Hi JmcD,
I too have 3D accelerator unknown with Nvidia drivers… thanks for the info
But more importantly, I’d like to know where I can get an U.N…C.L.E badge. I had the very same one back in 1962 but would sure like a new one

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I have never tried to buy UNCLE memorabilia before. I am sure you could find a hit on eBay if you were to search there. As for nVIDIA, they have posted a new video driver a couple of days ago.

Installing the nVIDIA Video Driver the Hard Way - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

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Just for information:
This has nothing to do with the graphics card or driver.
The 3D accelerator is shown as “unknown” on openSUSE, because KInfoCenter uses “lspci” to get information about the card and “lspci” isn’t in the path for a normal user (it’s in /sbin/).

Symlink it to /usr/bin/ and KInfoCenter should show this correctly:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/lspci /sbin/lspci
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I’ve already installed the 331.20 driver this morning GMT+8 on opensuse 13.1 with 3.12 kernel
but still says the same :slight_smile:
but everything works just fine anyway
I still love the UNCLE stuff tho

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Actually KInfocenter does try “/sbin/lspci” as well if “lspci” fails, but the check if it failed was wrong.
I fixed that, so it should work in the next KDE update (4.11.4 and 4.12 Beta3). :wink:

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Ever thought of including the output of lscpu in kinfocenter?

Thank You,

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Well, I’m not really involved in KInfocenter’s development, up to now I haven’t even looked at the source code…

But I think that should be easily doable, and is a good idea.

Unfortunately I’m not sure if this could be done for KDE4 because of kde-workspace’s feature freeze. (but it’s no big change anyway, so I guess an exception would be granted)

If you want to, you could file a wishlist item at http://bugs.kde.org/ so the idea doesn’t get lost.

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OK, I created a wish list bug report you can find it here to add lscpu info: 327622 – Add output from lscpu to the information shown

Thank You,

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Thanks!

I may try to implement that myself when I find some time to do so… :wink:

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Just let me know if I need to take any other action. Hope you have time to add the cpu info in and that we can get the fix with just an update to kinfocenter.

Thank You,

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A small update:
KInfocenter did show the content of /proc/cpuinfo in earlier versions, but this got removed some time ago (4.6 IIRC).
To make it more platform independable, the cpu info was then taken from solid (the KDE hardware abstraction layer).

And it did still show some CPU information on 12.3 with KDE 4.10.x.

Apparently there was a regression in solid, in that it didn’t list the CPU anymore (it was not even shown when calling “solid-hardware list”).
But: after upgrading to 4.11.4, this works again for me, see also http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/493070-kinfocenter-do-not-display-summary-information-about-cpu-how-fix.html#post2605745

So if you think it doesn’t show enough information, maybe solid could be extended to provide the missing information…

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For the opensuse 13.1 is the same:

Just the command must be turned around eg: sudo ln -s /sbin/lspci /usr/bin/lspci

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You’re right, I made a mistake in typing there… :shame:

Anyway, as I said, this is fixed in KDE 4.11.4 which will be released as official update for openSUSE 13.1 soon, maybe even next week already. :wink: