Masim Sugianto: Solved : Intel VGA (Intel HD Graphics) Installation on openSUSE 12.2

Last week, I buy a PC for simulation purpose, especially for training and testing on my labs. The specification are : Motherboard Gigabyte Intel LGA 1155 series (Z77X-D3H), processor i5, 8 GB of RAM (plan to upgrade it into 16 GB) and  500 GB of hard disk. The installation of openSUSE 12.2 64 bit went smooth, and I’m quite satisfied with the quality of openSUSE 12.2.

I’m pretty much appreciate with openSUSE 12.2 performance. Becoming my preferred distro since openSUSE 10.0 (also since SuSE 9.0), I leave it since openSUSE 12.0 due to poor performance (and the introduction of Gnome 3, that doesn’t fit with my feel and expectation ). My laptop using openSUSE 11.4 and I stick with this version until openSUSE 12.2 released.

openSUSE 12.2 has a beautiful grub 2 themes and also have an impressive performance on my PC. Unfortunately, it has minor problem due to Intel HD Graphics VGA driver. The graphic display was broken and sometimes crash and hang for a while. The problem was not occurred on openSUSE only, I got similar problem on LinuxMint 13 “Maya” 64 bit.

Below are my VGA  specification, check it with the following command  : lspci | grep VGA

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)

If you have similar problem, the following are things that I do to resolve the issue (run all these command with root permission) :

cd /opt
zypper in kernel-source make gcc gcc-c++ kernel-syms xorg-x11-server-sdk mesa-devel
wget -c http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.20.10.tar.gz
tar -zxvf xf86-video-intel-2.20.10.tar.gz
cd xf86-video-intel-2.20.10
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
make
make install

Restart your computer and then, voila, I was greeted with the beautiful display with openSUSE animation on booting.

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