Hello, I have graphics card VESA framebuffer graphics, and under Windows it works on 32-bit color depth. However, under openSUSE 11.0, it works under 16-bit by default and there isn’t even an option to set the color depth to 32-bit (under the same resolution), just 24-bit, which doesn’t work (it says that the combination of the resolution and 24-bit color depth is not supported). I’d really need to set the color depth to at least 24-bit, any ideas? Thank you very much!
What brand and model is your graphics card?
AKAIK, the VESA frambuffer driver is only a generic one, used when OpenSuse can’t supply a specific driver. I don’t think VESA is a brand.
There may be a driver that will allow you to get 32 bit color and possibly 3d support.
Thanks for the answer.
I can’t look at the exact type of graphics card right now, because I’m on a different computer, but is there any universal way how to find or update drivers ?
No, you have to know which graphics card or chip you have before you can go any further.
My graphics card is Intel - Broadwater - G Graphics Controller.
I was hoping it would be ATI or Nvidia. I have never updated Intel video drivers.
Anyone out there know how to do this?
I believe there are some drivers made by Intel that are not included with OpenSuse 11 that should give you 32 bit color and better performance.
If no one answers, I can try to figure out how to do this. It should involve adding a software repository in Yast, one that has Intel video drivers, but I’m not sure which repo has these drivers.
I don’t have an Intel chip either, but a quick look says
Broadwater is the 965 chipset and I can find 5 entries for
such chips in sax, and openSUSE 11 already contains a driver.
So I suggest you try the following:
open up a terminal and su to root, then type init 3,
in runlevel 3 run the following command:
sax2 -r -m 0=intel
note that in 0=intel 0 is a zero!
Follow the instructions given and upon succes when sax has
finished type init 5 and log on to your desktop.
If your system should lock up, not very unusual I’m
afraid, reboot your system and at the Grub menu type init 3,
log on as root and issue the following command:
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
sax2 finished type init 5 and log on to your desktop.
About 32 bit color depth, there is actually no such thing,
it’s 24 bit but stored in a 32 bit word, maybe it was the
marketing people at MS who dubbed it 32 bit?
And oh one more thing, I believe this is an integrated chip,
make sure enough memory is allocated for 24 bit color depth
in the BIOS settings.