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OpenSuse 10.3 on a Dell D820

Tue 08 September 2009
By Wonko

My Company gave me a Dell D820 Laptop Movable Desktop
(\~5Kg!!?). It came with XP which of course was wiped instantly. I am
running SLED 10 SP1 for a while but wanted to try all the 10.3 goodness
on it:

Dell D820

  • CPU: Intel® Core™2 CPU T7400 @ 2.16GHz
  • RAM: 4GB. Well someone ordered 4GB. The reality is that the Intel
    chipset only allowes the OS to use 3.3Gb of it (cat /proc/meminfo :
    MemTotal: 3346256 kB)
  • Graphic: Onboard (Intel 945GM)
  • Screen 15,4" WUXGA (1920x1200)
  • Gigabit Lan / Intel PRO Wireless 3945ABG
  • HDD 160Gb Seagate ST9160821AS

The installation worked like a charm (Used the Box double Layer DVD). No
hiccups or failures. I did install the 64bit version and KDE.

By now all Hardware was detected and is working fine.(Not using the
Modem, so i dot know about that)

The only thing i hat troubles with is the Graphics Card. Sax2 correctly
detected the Intel 945gm and i was able to use the full 1920x1200
resolution. No 3D acceleration though.

With a bit of Googling around i found that maybe the wrong Device driver
was loaded. It said:

Section "Device"  BoardName    "945 GM"BusID        "0:2:0"Driver       "intel"Identifier   "Device[0]"Option       "monitor-LVDS" "Monitor[0]"VendorName   "Intel"EndSection

in xorg.conf.

I simply changed the Driver to be "i810" leaving the rest of the
xorg.conf file untouched. Et voila! 3D acceleration!

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