Dell d620 graphics support

bagpussnz · 04-22-2006, 12:08 AM

I have just been given a Dell Latitude D620 notebook.
My first task was to install Suse 10 on it.
It installs fine - however, it only runs in 800x600 on vesa.

The dell site describes the graphics support as...

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (Up to 224MB shared)
The GMA 950 graphics core is an intelligent and responsive graphics engine built into the chipset that is on the motherboard. This integration provides incredible visual quality, faster graphics performance and flexible display options. (blah blah).

I tried getting the driver from the Intel web site, but it only supports Suse 9.3 - and it won't compile on 10.

Anyone know how I can this running?

Cheers,
Ian.

bagpussnz · 04-22-2006, 11:15 PM

My solution: install suse 10.1rc1. Works perfectly with this hardware.
It's also pretty stable - except for a couple of yast crashes.

Cheers,
Ian

Quote:

Originally Posted by bagpussnz

I have just been given a Dell Latitude D620 notebook.
My first task was to install Suse 10 on it.
It installs fine - however, it only runs in 800x600 on vesa.

The dell site describes the graphics support as...

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (Up to 224MB shared)
The GMA 950 graphics core is an intelligent and responsive graphics engine built into the chipset that is on the motherboard. This integration provides incredible visual quality, faster graphics performance and flexible display options. (blah blah).

I tried getting the driver from the Intel web site, but it only supports Suse 9.3 - and it won't compile on 10.

Anyone know how I can this running?

Cheers,
Ian.

num_one · 05-10-2006, 03:04 PM

Have a look at This thread, it may help.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=160521