Kernel upgrade to 2.6.34.7-03 on Intel 915G graphics requires Intellegacy driver

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#1

Just upgraded my Suse 11.3, 64 bit system with the new kernel 2.6.34.7-03 (skipped the previous upgrade, due to problems) and then found that attempting a local login caused the system to apparently crash. Frozen keyboard and mouse and no network services - so I presumed the system was completely dead.

Upon pressing the reset button, I discovered that remote logins via VNC or XDMCP were OK, so deduced it must be a graphics driver problem. The machine has Intel 915G graphics built in/ on board the Intel D915GAG MB.

Using oldcpu’s ‘How to’, I examined the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log which showed the ‘intel’ driver had been selected. Out of interest, I switched to runlevel 3 and ran the ‘Xorg -configure’ command, which generated a provision, overriding ‘xorg.conf’. Strangely, the device section of this recommended the ‘intellegacy’ driver.

I then put the ‘intellegacy’ driver definition into the ‘50-device.conf’ script of the ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d’ directory and rebooted. Seemed to cure the problem.

Hope that helps anybody else with this sort of hardware.

#2

Thanks for the post.

Your post reminded me I did not update my Intel section after openSUSE-11.3 and so after the reminder from your post, I added a sentence in the ‘practical theory guide’ mentioning the "intellegacy’ driver:
openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users - Intel graphics

#3

For those who are curious, here is some information on the intellegacy driver from the src rpm:

oldcpu@corei7:~/rpms/intel> rpm -qip xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy-2.9.1-1.9.src.rpm -l
Name        : xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy  Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.9.1                             Vendor: openSUSE
Release     : 1.9                           Build Date: Mon 05 Jul 2010 11:42:32 PM CEST
Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: build10
Group       : System/X11/Servers/XF86_4     Source RPM: (none)
Size        : 814414                           License: MIT
Signature   : RSA/8, Mon 05 Jul 2010 11:43:57 PM CEST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Packager    : http://bugs.opensuse.org
URL         : http://intellinuxgraphics.org/
Summary     : Legacy Version of the Intel X.Org Driver
Description :
This package contains the legacy version of the Intel X.Org driver which does
not require KMS.
Distribution: openSUSE 11.3
moblin-2009Q2-rc2-incremental.patch
moblin-dump-tools.patch
moblin-uxa-Fix-segfault-on-source-only-picture-usage.patch
xf86-video-intel-2.9.1-legacy.patch
xf86-video-intel-2.9.1-xorg-server-1.7.3-fixes.patch
xf86-video-intel-2.9.1.tar.bz2
xf86-video-intel-G33-1mb.diff
xf86-video-intel-NoFBC-945GME.diff
xf86-video-intel-bfo17988.diff
xf86-video-intel-buildfix.diff
xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy-rpmlintrc
xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy.spec