diff --git a/hosts/hardware/FredOS-Macbook.nix b/hosts/hardware/FredOS-Macbook.nix
index 2feca9d..78f2067 100644
--- a/hosts/hardware/FredOS-Macbook.nix
+++ b/hosts/hardware/FredOS-Macbook.nix
@@ -35,12 +35,10 @@
   hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware = true;
   hardware.facetimehd.enable = true;
 
-  # VA-API hardware video decode. iHD covers Broadwell/gen8+ (2014-2015),
-  # i965 covers Haswell/gen7.5 (2013); libva picks whichever the GPU is.
-  hardware.graphics.extraPackages = with pkgs; [
-    intel-media-driver
-    intel-vaapi-driver
-  ];
+  # VA-API hardware video decode. This is a Haswell-ULT GPU (gen7.5) → i965;
+  # iHD is gen8+ only and can't init here, so pin the name to skip its probe.
+  hardware.graphics.extraPackages = [ pkgs.intel-vaapi-driver ];
+  environment.sessionVariables.LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME = "i965";
 
   # Pin to the 6.12 LTS kernel: the out-of-tree broadcom_sta (Wi-Fi) and
   # facetimehd (iSight) modules don't build against linuxPackages_latest