Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100

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I have openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64).
My video system is: Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100.

I have bug with compiz (EXA mode acceleration in xorg.conf) - compiz is very slow…

so… i noticed new intel video driver (Intel Linux Graphics: Downloads).

“The latest (2008Q4) pre-release driver components (recommend to trial users/OSVs for release candidate testing)”

Who has already try to install it on openSUSE 11.1?
Is compiz working fast?

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Where do you even find Linux drivers for Intel GMA graphics cards? I have been looking for one for GMA 4500MHD on Intel Download sites, without success.

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Where do you even find Linux drivers for Intel GMA graphics cards? I have been looking for one for GMA 4500MHD on Intel Download sites, without success.

They are supported (to varying degrees) by the Xorg intel driver already included with your kernel package. However newer chipsets may be better supported by newer drivers, and these may require later Xorg versions as well.

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Did you ever have any success with this? The Intel driver for openSUSE normally comes with the rpm “xorg-x11-driver-video” and I documented the little I know here: openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users - openSUSE Forums

According to the documentation for the “intel” driver that comes with that rpm, the “intel” driver supports the i810, i810-DC100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 965G, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 945GME, G33, Q33, Q35, G35, GM45, G45, Q45, G43 and G41 chipsets.

Its not clear to me at all how much the GMA 4500 is supported, but my surfing suggests the GM45 includes the GMA 4500 in the above?

What sort of success have users with a PC with an Intel GMA 4500 have had? Unfortunately, no one with Intel video have updated the openSUSE HCL: HCL/Video Cards - openSUSE

I’m asking because a friend (who uses openSUSE) is looking at purchasing an Asus UL30A with the Intel GMA 4500MHD, they have asked my opinion (and I owe them some favours from years back), and if it may give them problems I want to warn them. (I deliberately avoided the 4500MHD myself 14 months ago when I purchased my new laptop). I did find some warnings here wrt the Asus UL30A with this GMA 4500MHD graphics Asus UL30A [Linux Laptop Wiki]

I also searched on bugzilla and found various bugs:

  • Invisible cursor on external monitor (work around available): Access Denied
  • Artifacts with dual head: Access Denied
  • External display doesn’t work unless monitor connected at boot (the problem was passed upstream): Access Denied

and that was mostly all I noted. My friend is unlikely to use an external monitor, and so this lack of bug reports suggests to me the GMA4500MHD works reasonably well with openSUSE-11.2.

Any observations from uses with this graphic hardware (Intel GMA 4500 MHD) ?