Install the package “xf86-video-openchrome”, that contains a driver for your chip. AFAIK that’s not installed by default, even if you have a supported graphics card.
And try to add “nomodeset” to the boot options. I think that driver doesn’t support KMS. But I’m not sure, so try without first.
If that doesn’t help, please post /var/log/Xorg.0.log (upload to a sharing/pasting site like http://susepaste.org/ and post a link) .
openSUSE 13.1 only includes xf86-video-openchrome.
# zypper se -s openchrome
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
--+-----------------------+---------+-------------+--------+------------------
| xf86-video-openchrome | package | 0.3.2-3.1.3 | x86_64 | openSUSE-13.1-Oss
| xf86-video-openchrome | package | 0.3.2-3.1.3 | i586 | openSUSE-13.1-Oss
I would recommend to uninstall xorg-x11-driver-video-openchrome and install xf86-video-openchrome instead.
Although it is the same driver of course. But the package included in your distribution should fit best to the xorg-x11-server included in the distribution.
The speech was about Suse 12.x
I just tried it out since there was also a 13.1 version at http://software.opensuse.org. But now I see it’s marked unstable while the xf86 one seems to the offivial release.
PS, if you installed that one: http://software.opensuse.org/package/xorg-x11-driver-video-openchrome , that should be ok as well.
It is a slightly newer version of the driver (but based on an old package, that’s why it is still named xorg-x11-video-openchrome). It additionally contains one fix for a crash with a “newer libcairo2”.
So it might be the better choice in this case, though I don’t know whether this fix is relevant for openSUSE 13.1.
Well, use the one that works for you…
(actually both should work)
Sorry, that was wrong. That crashfix was already added in 2011 and is in both packages.
The changelog only mentions these changes from 0.3.2 (in openSUSE 13.1’s xf86-video-openchrome) to 0.3.3 (the xorg-x11-video-openchrome):
openchrome 0.3.3 (23/05/2013)
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This is a bugfix release.
- Fix integer overflow in libchromeXvMC (CVE-2013-1994).
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
So just choose one, I would say, and if you encounter issues, switch to the other one.
Initially I tended to chose the stable one. Sounds somehow safer to me. The display is a very sensible point in the system. If it simply may crash at any moment it could lead to horrible scenarios. Who knows which programs are open at that time, unsaved documents or program settings, that could be lost forever. Scary!
But now that I read from you that it even includes a bug-fix I guess it might be better to keep xorg-x11-driver-video-openchrome.
Well, I cannot tell you for sure whether the “stable” one would crash or not, because I don’t have any such card.
And I don’t know what exactly those bugfixes in 0.3.3 were. Might not even be relevant for 13.1 at all.
There are bugfixes and new versions all the time for all the software included in the distribution. That doesn’t mean that the versions in the distribution don’t work or crash. (if they do, this should be reported and updates should be released)
Somebody should at least try the driver included in 13.1 and report a bug when it crashes. The maintainers might not be aware that there is a newer version, or that there might be problems.
This would help everybody with such a chipset, as the newer version could even be released as official update for 13.1 (especially if there are crashes with the included version).
Btw, that the driver is not installed by default might be worth a bug report, too.
And without that boot option