Dell XPS 13: i915 or i965?

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1108

I'm having trouble figuring out if I should have VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" or "intel i915". My Dell XPS 13 is a Sandy Bridge which should mean i965 according to this chart:

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel#Feature_support

but there is conflicting info online about this laptop. Does anyone know how to find out which is correct?

eccerr0r · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:22 pm Post subject:

I just use "intel", seems to work fine even for Wine...
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grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1108

"intel" works fine but am I missing out on features or performance that way?

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 7:33 am Post subject:

I don't think you're missing much with just setting as "intel" ... it will still autodetect properly.

I am running Wine apps with opengl/d3d and it seems to draw fast enough... it's not horribly bad. I don't know what applications you're planning to run on it?
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Intel Core i7 2700K/Radeon R7 250/24GB DDR3/256GB SSD
What am I supposed watching?