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#1

hi

does somebody tried newest xorg and mesa on suse 12.2?

Index of /repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_12.2

thanks

#2

Using it now. The only bug I really ran into is some xrandr weirdness and do not run xrestop as it will kill your xsession. Granted that might only be on intel drivers. I am also using the new intel SNA acceleration and it works fine.


glxinfo | grep Mesa
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset 
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.0

Edit: Remember to switch to the repository in yast software management (or do zypper dup --from “repo name”) if you decide to use it. Also, do not commit to the upgrade if it wants to remove either fbdev or vesa drivers. A newport driver (or something like that) is removed with the upgrade, and that is fine.

#3

thanks, update done, that work fine

#4

wellywu@linux-pn0z:~> glxinfo | grep Mesa
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 8.0.4
wellywu@linux-pn0z:~>

How do I add the Intel SNA to my OpenSuSE 64 bit Tumbleweed?

#5

I checked the X11 repository for Mesa 9 and there is not a Tumbleweed section. Would it be safe for me to use the OpenSuSE 12.2 repository to add Mesa 9?

#6

I doubt that it would be safe. Also you already have opengl 3.0 support (I am jealous) so not much reason to upgrade to new mesa.

How do I add the Intel SNA to my OpenSuSE 64 bit Tumbleweed?

First check if not already running SNA:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep SNA

If not, in root terminal:

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Add the below to the file and press ctrl+x to save.

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "AccelMethod"  "sna"
EndSection

Reboot to make changes take effect. A log out and log in might be sufficient but I have not tested that.

#7

Reboot to make changes take effect. A log out and log in might be sufficient but I have not tested that.

Just a restart of the X-server will be sufficient: CTRL-ALT-Backspace (twice)

#8

wellywu@linux-pn0z:~> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep SNA
114.021] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with IvyBridge backend
wellywu@linux-pn0z:~>

Thank you!