installing drivers for Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics in opensue 11.4

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#1

hi all,

got my laptop broken long ago and for some reasons can get inverter delivered to my to get it working it again… so want to temporarily use other laptop for opensuse 11.4
but am not sure how to install graphic drivers in these laptop, hopefully you can help me :slight_smile:

here is the output of $ lspci command:

 # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)                                                                               
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 05)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000
03:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller
03:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Memory Stick Host Controller
03:00.4 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller with AVB] (rev 11)
3f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
3f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
3f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
3f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
3f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
3f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02

and $ lspci -v | less command:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9071
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
        Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
        Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256]
        I/O ports at e080 [size=8]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
        Kernel driver in use: i915

00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 9071
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        Memory at f600a000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [8c] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+

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#2

According to that the i915 (an intel graphic driver) is in use.

Next time, a superior command to show your graphics details (with less more succinct useful lines) is:


/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2

Do you not have a graphic desktop GUI now ?

#3

hi oldcpu and thanks for your answer,

:slight_smile: do have a GUI, I thought “VGA compatible controller” was just compatible so there was a need for the proper graphic driver, since these is quite new laptop and behaves almost like my 6 year old (broken at that moment but have nvida there and the GUI runs even without proper drivers…) I thought with graphics would run better…

Good Luck

#4

The ‘lspci’ command suggests you have the i915 Intel driver loaded. A better check is to examine the content of the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

There is different intel graphic hardware with different behaviour, … some is well supported by GNU/Linux … some not well supported. In general the MS-Windows AMD, nVidia, and Intel graphic drivers are SIGNIFICANTLY superior to their GNU/Linux equivalents. …

wrt nvidia I will venture a guess that you must have the ‘proper’ driver. ie either the open source ‘nv’, or the open source ‘nouveau’ or the proprietary ‘nvidia’ graphic driver.

#5

in /var/log/Xorg.0.log file found that:

Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) Arrandale
intel(0): Chipset: “Arrandale”

did also

glxinfo | grep direct

and got
direct rendering: Yes

so graphic drivers are installed…but was expecting better performance in overall …

have to agree with you that in general windows graphics are superior than Linux but with ‘nv’ drivers in my laptop i got good performance tried games via vine and played runs almost like on windows, :slight_smile: almost because was quieter and cooler than under windows…

any way will stick to what I have at that moment,
thanks oldcpu