I recently installed openSUSE 11.4 ; my pc hardware information is
Dell Optiplex gx280
Processor Intel Celeron CPU 2.53GHz
Graphics driver: Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - XDDM)
Audio driver: SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
how to install them to get proper performance ?
The audio and graphic drivers should already be installed as part of the basic openSUSE install.
The alsa sound driver should provide the required sound functionality. It comes with the GNU/Linux kernel. You may wish to install the pulse audio volume control application (pavucontrol) and run that application the same/first time you run each of your multimedia applications and use pavucontrol to tune pulse audio for that application.
The open source intel graphic driver (that is included in the rpm xorg-x11-driver-video ) should also provide the needed functionality. Some users with older intel drivers need to use the ‘intellegacy’ driver that comes with the rpm xorg-x11-driver-video, and in that later case, one simply does an appropriate edit to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf file to load the intellegacy. Dependant on the boot characteristics one encounters, for the video one may or may not require the nomodeset boot code.
In the case of the older Intellegacy driver, this is the sort of edit one would apply to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf file
Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
#Driver "radeon"
Driver "intellegacy"
## Required magic for radeon/radeonhd drivers; output name
## (here: "DVI-0") can be figured out via 'xrandr -q'
#Option "monitor-DVI-0" "Default Monitor"
EndSection