On 07/20/2011 02:18 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
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?
Last night, because it was late, I failed to notice that the Subject
line of your note (and my earlier one) says "graphics driver". This
morning, after a very good night's sleep, it jumped up and hit me in the
eye. The i5/6/7 CPUs and their h3000 graphics are still pretty new; the
driver I installed is on the "Tumbleweed" repository, a place for new
things that haven't made it into the main stream. I have not yet
installed the latest and greatest kernel, of which there are several
varieties on Tumbleweed.
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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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