My ATI graphics card fan went bad, so I am temporarily using the Intel Sandy Bridge integrated video until a replacement fan arrives from Hong Kong (maybe I'll get it this year). One question I have is that when I opened up Software Management in YaST2, it wanted to install the following packages: intel-gpu-tools, vaapi-intel-driver, and xf86-video-intel. Xorg was working fine outputting video to the screen before installing these, so what are these for? Secondly, Amarok works in terms of outputting sound, but the GUI is not functioning; there's now a hole where the visualizations normally were and I see what's on my desktop instead, and there's a blank gray frame around that. Also, if I leave the computer for a short period of time and come back and move the mouse or hit a key, this KDE OSD thing pops up with a picture of a monitor and a level meter. Sometimes it just pops up randomly on its own without hitting any key. Are the Xorg Intel drivers just buggy?
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