Stan Goodman <[email protected]> writes:

> If I omitted to specify the video driver, I have to apologize. I had
> spent the entire day, and part of yesterday, finding and trying to
> install the Sandy Bridge driver (which is not yet found in the
> normal YaST system). Shortly after I gave up and posted the note you
> read. I stumbled upon the one-click installation website, which
> supports the needed driver, and was able to install the thing within
> less than a minute. So, although I feel I wasted many hours
> unnecessarily, the up side is that my operating system is now usable
> graphically, and I can begin to grow back what remains of my hair.

First, congratlations. Secondly, I am still confused and curious, if
only to learn a little bit of how a not very familiar system (and a
new CPU/GPU) works.

What driver is it? i915? How come it is not a part of the kernel?

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | [email protected]

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