Ladislav's blog: Installing latest Intel graphics driver to openSUSE 11.4

Monday, April 18, 2011

Installing 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, see e.g. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=45061.

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
```
Download http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.15.0.tar.bz2

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...

5 comments:

baskin said...: I think that you can just enable the following repo:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.4/

that includes the latest intel driver.

After that just "Switch Packages" from yast to this repo.; April 18, 2011 at 10:19 AM
Ladislav Slezák said...: Yeah, thanks for the hint!

Yes, the new driver has been included there, but I had installed it this way before it made it into RPM ;-); April 20, 2011 at 5:07 AM
peter.mueller said...: Hi!

Thanks for the tip. The same thing hit me on my new Lenovo ThinkPad T420 ...

By the way, I had to compile the driver on my own, the one found in the repository above did not fix the problem for me.

Bye, and Thanks
Peter
WOTLmade; April 22, 2011 at 6:32 AM
Charles Chia said...: Your solution is working, but the problem is this driver (intel HD3000) can not detect external VGA. Is there any solution to solve this?; August 18, 2011 at 7:55 PM
software said...: I want to install intel graphics driver on my OpenSUSeE, thanks already to guide how to install.; November 29, 2011 at 4:51 PM