Latest Intel Graphics Driver to OpenSUSE 11.4
(Edit: The bug has been fixed in openSUSE update repository, you do not need to compile the driver manually anymore, just install the latest update for xorg-x11-driver-video package.)
I have upgraded my home PC to Intel i5-2500K CPU (Sandy Bridge family). The CPU has a new integrated graphics core (Intel HD 3000) and it works out-of-box in openSUSE-11.4 including 3D and composition. The only problem I noticed are broken popup menus and buttons in title bars in KDE. Esp. broken popups are very annoying as they are hardly usablE
Fortunately Intel has released updated X driver version 2.15 which fixes this problem. Here is a step by step how to install the updated driver in openSUSE 11.4.
I have upgraded my home PC to Intel i5-2500K CPU (Sandy Bridge family). The CPU has a new integrated graphics core (Intel HD 3000) and it works out-of-box in openSUSE-11.4 including 3D and composition. The only problem I noticed are broken popup menus and buttons in title bars in KDE. Esp. broken popups are very annoying as they are hardly usablE
Fortunately Intel has released updated X driver version 2.15 which fixes this problem. Here is a step by step how to install the updated driver in openSUSE 11.4.
- Install xorg-x11-server-sdk package
sudo zypper in xorg-x11-server-sdk - Unpack the archive
tar xfjv xf86-video-intel-2.15.0.tar.bz2 - Now compile the driver:
cd xf86-video-intel-2.15.0 ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 make(If you have installed 32-bit system then use /usr/lib path in the second command.) - Install the driver (will overwrite the files from RPM package)
sudo make install - Restart the X server (simply relogin to a new session) Voila, now your system should use the new driver and the artifacts in the KDE popups should be gone!
Maybe someone can pack the driver into a RPM package in the OpenSUSE build service, but for me this solution is sufficient...
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