Hello all,
I have a new laptop that I recently installed Manjaro. The machine has a Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 graphics chip. When running mhwd, I noticed that there are three separate graphics drivers I could be using:
$ mhwd
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-vesa 2017.03.12 true PCI
From what some digging up online showed me, video-linux is Intel’s own graphics driver and video-modesetting is the open source one provided by XOrg. Is that correct?
video-linux appears to be more than 2 years old, would it be better if I used video-modesetting instead? I heard some horror stories online where people had trouble booting after switching to the modesetting driver. Is there a way I could test this safely without bricking my install?
My graphics card details are below:
$ inxi -G
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: intel resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Plus Graphics (ICL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.1