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I have HP ProBook 4530s laptop with AMD Radeon HD 6490M graphics card. After installing Ubuntu it runs on Intel Sandybridge graphics. The Ubuntu community page says: "By default Ubuntu will use the open source ATI or Radeon driver for cards manufactured by AMD/ATI." I already have installed the required driver packages: xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-all, but it uses Intel driver anyway. When I'm uninstalling the Intel driver (xserver-xorg-video-intel) and rebooting, Radeon graphics works, it uses Gallium driver, but only 2D session loads. This page says: "No configuration is necessary for ATI driver in the modern versions of Ubuntu." and I'm using Ubuntu 12.04. What's wrong? P.S. I don't want the proprietary FGLRX driver, it's really buggy on my system.

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  • Do you by chance have hybrid graphics? Sep 8, 2012 at 18:28
  • Yes, I have hybrid graphics. Sep 8, 2012 at 19:53
  • Can you disable the Intel GPU from the BIOS? Sep 8, 2012 at 20:01
  • Unfortunately I can't. Sep 8, 2012 at 20:02

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Have you tried this?

sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx*  
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri fglrx-modaliases  
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core

This should make your system use the opensource driver. It worked for me. I have a different computer but it has a Radeon HD 4000 series

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  • Nah! It runs on Intel GPU :( People are having a lot of problems caused by their AMD graphics card. Nov 5, 2012 at 0:53
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Definetily the issue that I faced. I wrote this article as a solution that worked for me.

ATI Radeon HD 6750 Ubuntu 13.10

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  • You are much appreciated for trying to help a person. But you must give context for links ie explain whatever is in the link you are providing. See here :- askubuntu.com/help/how-to-answer under "Provide context for links" heading. This is not intended to offend you but just to make your answer better and useful for the community.
    – Venkatesh
    Apr 12, 2014 at 18:43

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