i need to use Microsoft Excel for my work. but after installing it using wine in my OPENSUSE TUMBLEWEED, there were blackened spaces in Excel (see the link below):
i had posted a Thread in the “Applications” section for a solution and got the reply that installing Intel Driver “2.16.0” will solve the problem. he also gave me a link to the package but it was for 11.4. can anyone direct me to tumbleweed version of the same?
Details of my OS:
openSUSE 11.4 (i586)
VERSION = 11.4
CODENAME = Celadon
@ malcolmlewis,
thanks for the reply.
got to admit one thing. this forum is much more responsive than the ubuntuforums. keep up the good work guysrotfl!
An advantage of malcolm’s suggestion, is if it’s “problematic” to enable package for Tumbleweed & Factory, it would catch conflicts with Xorg updates.
Can’t see anything installed on my system that makes me suspect the 11.4 package wouldn’t work same with current Tumble.
Its not clear to me that I understand this thread, but wrt the Intel driver in Tumbleweed, it is version 2.14 with lots of patches. Here is some of the change history of xorg-11-video-driver rpm from tumbleweed:
Name : xorg-x11-driver-video Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 7.6 Vendor: openSUSE
Release : 53.58.1 Build Date: Thu 12 May 2011 10:27:45 PM CEST
Install Date: Fri 20 May 2011 12:44:48 AM CEST Build Host: build18
Group : System/X11/Servers/XF86_4 Source RPM: xorg-x11-driver-video-7.6-53.58.1.src.rpm
Size : 7124303 License: MIT License (or similar)
Signature : RSA/8, Thu 12 May 2011 10:30:44 PM CEST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
URL : http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Summary : X.Org video drivers
Description :
This package contains X.Org video drivers.
Distribution: openSUSE 11.4
* Wed May 11 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
- xf86-video-intel-946GZ-is-a-965G.patch
* 946GZ is a 965G! (bnc #690428, bfo #35854)
* Fri Apr 15 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
- xf86-video-intel-gen6-Invalidate-texture-cache.patch
* fixes partial screen distortion on Sandybridge visible in KDE
(bnc #680921, bfo #35808)
* Wed Apr 13 2011 James.Bottomley-at-suse.de
- xf86-video-intel-damage-fix.diff
* upstream commit da990536eca09c6de74627541cd56ecfad925eda
uxa: Undo damage translation before appending
* our bugzilla 666704
* freedesktop bugzilla https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32734
* Mon Feb 14 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
- removed TV-in support for All in Wonder 128 again (bnc #671623)
* Mon Feb 14 2011 stefan.bruens-at-rwth-aachen.de
- support dell backlight via /sys/class/backlight/dell_backlight
* Sat Feb 12 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
- remove no longer applied patch 'xf86-video-intel-copy-fb.diff'
* Fri Feb 04 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
- xf86-video-ati-6.14.0
* KMS EXA/Xv support for evergreen asics (requires kernel 2.6.36
or newer)
* KMS EXA/Xv support for ontario fusion asics (requires kernel
2.6.38 or newer)
* KMS EXA/Xv support for northern islands asics (requires kernel
2.6.38 or newer)
* UMS support for ontario fusion asics
* KMS pageflipping support for all radeons (requires kernel
2.6.38 or newer)
* Major man page cleanup
* Lots of bug fixes
* Fri Jan 28 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
- xf86-video-xgi-symbols.diff, xf86-video-xgixp-symbols.diff
* (xf86)LoaderReqSymLists no longer supported/required; fixes
"X -configure" run (bnc #667877)
* Sat Jan 22 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
- xf86-video-ati (2011-01-21, fadee04)
* latest git version of radeon driver, which includes Evergreen
support
* Sat Jan 08 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
**- xf86-video-intel 2.14.0**
- removed obsolete
xf86-video-intel-i965-Fix-off-by-one-in-assert.patch
The Intel 2.15 is in factory. The 2.16 is not. Is the 2.16 even released yet ?
If you look at the factory xorg-x11-driver-video and check out its change history, you find this:
Name : xorg-x11-driver-video Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 7.6 Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/X11
Release : 229.2 Build Date: Fri 15 Jul 2011 03:06:17 AM CEST
Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: build11
Group : System/X11/Servers/XF86_4 Source RPM: xorg-x11-driver-video-7.6-229.2.src.rpm
Size : 6638204 License: MIT License (or similar)
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Fri 15 Jul 2011 03:08:20 AM CEST, Key ID bb1af2330f2672c8
URL : http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Summary : X.Org video drivers
Description :
This package contains X.Org video drivers.
Distribution: X11:XOrg / openSUSE_Factory
* Sun Jul 10 2011 eich-at-suse.de
- added U_xgi-Fix-build-on-bigendian.patch:
Fixed a big endian issue in xgi, extracted from xgi GIT (found by
Marcus Meissner).
* Sun Jul 10 2011 eich-at-suse.de
- renamed xf86-video-geode-Stop-including-linux-videodev.h-in-z4l.c.patch
to U_geode-Stop-including-linux-videodev.h-in-z4l.c.patch.
* Sat Jul 02 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
- xf86-video-geode-Stop-including-linux-videodev.h-in-z4l.c.patch
* Stop including "linux/videodev.h" in z4l.c V4L1 support was
dropped as of Linux kernel 2.6.38
* Fri Jul 01 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
- commented out xorg.conf.d snippets by default, since
"use-last-screen.patch" of xorg-x11-server package hasn't been
accepted upstream and we want to get rid of it; documented the
issues in the conf.d files themselves, when make use of these
sections (fdo #32430)
* Tue Jun 21 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
- xf86-video-ati 6.14.2
* support for new GPUs
* a bunch of fusion/cayman fixes
* Tue May 31 2011 eich-at-suse.de
- remove support for HALlib for Matrox driver.
* Wed May 25 2011 eich-at-suse.de
- remove xf86-video-intel-buildfix.diff:
The function type has been adjusted already.
* Wed May 25 2011 eich-at-suse.de
- remove xf86-video-fbdev.diff:
Noone uses this code path any more today.
* Wed May 25 2011 eich-at-suse.de
- remove xf86-video-vmware-10.15.2.diff:
According to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14208
this bug has been fixed in the vmware driver in version 10.16.9.
* Wed May 25 2011 eich-at-suse.de
- remove xf86-video-rendition.diff:
Doesn't seem to be required for build any more.
Let's see where it breaks in the build system.
* Wed May 25 2011 eich-at-suse.de
- Minor cleanup in spec file.
* Mon May 02 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
- xf86-video-ati 6.14.1
* add cayman support (shadowfb, kms-only, requires kernel 2.6.39)
* fix build against xserver 1.10
* big endian support for r6xx+ (kms)
* bug fixes
- obsoletes xf86-video-ati-kms-don-t-rotate-if-acceleration-is-not-enabled.patch
* Fri Apr 15 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
- disabled xf86-video-intel-copyfb.diff for now (bnc #687802)
* Thu Apr 14 2011 sndirsch-at-novell.com
**- xf86-video-intel 2.15.0**
- obsoletes xf86-video-intel-uxa-Undo-damage-translation-before-appending.patch
- adjusted xf86-video-intel-dell_backlight.diff,
xf86-video-intel-copyfb.diff
Like malcolm said ask if that OBS project can be built for Factory & Tumbleweed to, that will help the changes get into 12.1.
You will probably be OK with the 11.4 version because there’s not Xorg updates in Tumbleweed yet.
The rpm commands I use only work if the appropriate fields in the rpm have been populated. If the packager did not populate the fields then it does not work.
For the version on Tumbleweed, since I ran the command from a tumbleweed install, I only had to type:
rpm -qi xorg-x11-driver-video --changelog | less
For the version in factory, I when here " Index of /repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_Factory " and downloaded (but did NOT install) the rpm xorg-x11-driver-video-7.6-229.2.x86_64.rpm and then I ran the command (which is different as it has a ’ p ’ in it ) :
rpm -qip xorg-x11-driver-video-7.6-229.2.x86_64.rpm --changelog | less
No where do I see reference to a 2.16 Intel driver on the Intel site being released. As far as I can tell its still in development. Note often a new version of an Intel driver will require a new version of Mesa , and/or a new version of the X server, and/or a new version of the kernel. Its typically NOT an easy driver install.
i have mailed to the developer asking him whether this is still in development stage and also requested him to make one for tumbleweed. waiting for his reply.