To install the qxl driver on OpenSuse 12.1, follow these steps-
- Make sure you have these packages installed on system.
If not, open Start menu | search for Yast | select Yast |
<enter password when prompted>
Select Software Management - Search for the following packages and mark them to install.
gcc
xorg-x11-server-sdk - Download spice-protocol latest stable package from http://spicespace.org/download.html
- Open Terminal/Konsole and change to the downloads directory.
- Become root using command
su
<enter password> - Extract archieve using command
tar -xvf spice-protocol-package-name - Change to extracted directory -
cd spice-protocol-source-directory - Enter these commands one after other-
./configure
make
make install - Download latest qxl driver from http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/
Check for filename like xf86-video-qxl-X.X.X.tar.bz2 - Extract the archieve using command
tar -xvf xf86-video-qxl-X.X.X.tar.bz2 - Change to the extracted directory
cd xf86-video-qxl-X.X.X - Enter these commands one by one
./configure
make
make install - now shutdown your OpenSuse machine to configure it to use Spice.
- Follow the tutorial to enable the spice client for your machine.