Graphics Card Driver for GMA HD Please

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I have unfortunately found myself unable to properly boot up openSUSE because I decided to buy the Acer Aspire with the i5 Processor.

I have the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD (GMA HD) graphics card, and unfortunately from all my searching online and on openSUSE, I have been unable to find a driver for this that works for linux, and in addition I don’t know how to install a driver outside of a GUI.

My openSUSE boots up to the boot choosing screen (regular openSUSE or failsafe), and then that nice list of functions being done is displayed, but as soon as the daemon has started, suddenly my screen goes blank and I am unable to do anything about it. Beyond this point, my OS loses all functionability, and while I can hear it computing, I am unable to actually tell WHAT it is computing. If somebody can please help me to get a driver for this and to install this driver and get this GUI running, that would be great.

Thanks in advance.

(EDIT) by caf4926
Please do not double post

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Drivers are built in for Intel

Check here though
openSUSE Forums - View Single Post - openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users

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Thanks, I’ll see what I can do with this. This is really starting to tick me off. First the Grub error 21 (which I dealt with), and now I have the graphics card incompatible.

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Do you know whether or not 11.3 will be compatible with the GMA HD driver? Because if it is, it would save me a lot of trouble.

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*GMA HD Graphic card

(not driver)

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Not sure
Why not try a live CD for 11.3

Read this too
SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE

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There is a thread here wrt an i3 processor user with what might be the same graphic hardware:
Installing Linux on Laptop with Intel Core i3 Processor - openSUSE Forums

In particular, note you really need to provide more detail on your graphics. There is more than one type of Intel GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) HD.

But I note (with this as a reference): Intel HD Graphics - ThinkWiki, which while written around thinkpads is likely true for your acer, and that you likely need a very recent Linux distribution with kernel 2.6.33 and also note that Intel Xorg driver 2.10 or newer is recommended. This means openSUSE-11.2 is too old as it has the 2.6.31 kernel and I believe only 2.9 Intel xorg driver.

openSUSE-11.3 (in development - almost finished) has the 2.6.34 kernel and xorg-1.8.0 and the Intel 2.11 driver which I suspect you need for that PC.

You could try openSUSE-11.3 RC1 or wait until mid-July and try 11.3 GM (final released) version.

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Thanks to you all for the helpful suggestions.