[sf-lug] Intel graphics chipsets (was /firmware/radeon)

[jim]

# dmesg  ## ??



On 12/21/2015 04:23 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:
> Rick Moen writes:
>> If you wanted to be truly helpful in helping others help you, you could
>> have posted the results of getting your video chip data from lspci, like
>> maybe...
>>
>> $ lspci | grep VGA
> A side question, not part of maestro's problem: how do you find out
> the chipset on Intel machines? If I run lspci | grep VGA on this
> Lenovo X201, it says:
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
>
> Not very specific. lspci | grep Intel isn't any more helpful.
> And they made the X201 for a long time with multiple chipsets,
> so googling doesn't tell me what's in my specific machine.
>
> The last time Xorg broke on this machine, I spent lot of time
> searching but never did find a reliable way to figure out which
> Intel graphics I had. That time, I ended up making an xorg.conf with
>      Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
> which some people were reporting as helpful on some Intel machines,
> and it seems to have done the trick so far. But I'd still like to
> know what chipset I have.
>
>          ...Akkana
>
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