Vaio Netbook GraphicsCard Driver

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#1

hi,

i just bought a wonderful sony vaio netbook and installed opensuse 11.2. i also managed to get my wifi to work, by building the rt3090sta driver.

the only thing remaining to complete luck is that scrolling in firefox is incredibly slow sometimes. i experienced similar behaviour with a missing graphics driver on my big vaio.

do i need to install some driver or is this a behaviour i have to live with, any help or point into the right direction really appreciated.

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p.s. my lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Pineview DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
#2

My understanding is the Pineview has the Intel GMA3150. A surf on that suggests to me that the GMA3150 is supported in the Intel 2.10.0 driver which comes with the Intel Linux Graphics: 2009Q4 which notes:

This release has been validated on following hardware: G45, GM45, GN40, GM965, 945GME, 915GM, 855GM, GMA 3150, Intel® HD Graphics
, while previous releases did not provide GMA 3150 support.

openSUSE-11.2 comes with the much older Intel 2.9.0 driver which does not support the GMA 3150. So you may be forced to wait for the openSUSE-11.3 release in mid-July. Unfortunately I know of no way to update to the Intel 2.10.0 or 2.11.0 graphic driver without requiring a non-official kernel update, X update and Mesa update, which are risky (and something I have not done). That can be done via the Xorg : X11 repository, but I don’t have experience to help there, hence my suggestion to wait for 11.3 release in mid-July.