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Ubuntu and the HP Envy 15t-3200

Could someone post a tutorial on making Ubuntu 13.04 work with the HP Envy 15t-3200? I own this laptop, and have had to use Windows so far. :( There are several problems (touchpad, sound, etc), but ...
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Ubuntu doesnt shutdown properly with Intel HD VGA (proprietary driver)

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on a Dell Vostro 3550 notebook with a AMD Radeon 6630M/Intel HD 3000 hybrid-graphics card. I recently installed the latest proprietary drivers from the AMD website. Everything ...
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Ubuntu on hybrid GPU laptops

I am running Ubuntu on VAIO VPCSE (23FX) that contains hybrid graphics processing capabilities. It is equipped with: VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor ...
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Hybrid Intel/AMD Radeon problem [duplicate]

I have a Dell Inspiron 7520 which is Ubuntu certificated. I installed Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit. Now i have problem with the fan control (noise) because of the hybrid System. I tried some tutorials but ...
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failsafex mode hangs: how to debug it?

I have radeon/intel hybrid graphics. When testing my recovery mode login, failsafex mode hangs at the second screen. It needs a mouse or not? Looks like there are buttons I could click. I have a ...
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How do I disable the discrete graphics and force the use of my integrated Intel HD graphics on an HP Envy 15t-3200?

I have been trying to blacklist my open source AMD Radeon driver so that my system will use only the Intel HD 4000 Ivy bridge graphics. What is the proper procedure? I am using xserver-xorg-video-ati, ...
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How to regain 3D support on an Integrated GPU after installing ATI Proprietary Drivers?

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my laptop. After configuring everything, I installed the ATI proprietary drivers (Version 12.10). The dedicated GPU works perfectly fine and I get more than ...
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Radeon HD + vgaswitcheroo

I have a Hp Envy4 1025tx machine. I've tried vgaswitcheroo and amdcccle. I'm happy with Vgaswitcheroo powersaving efficiency and amdcccle's performance. I want both of them on my system. Is there a ...
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AMD/AMD GPU Switching

I have two GPU's in my laptop, both of which are AMD. Whenever I use the Catalyst Control Centre to change the GPU, nothing changes after reboot. In fact, when I do the fglrxinfo command the ...
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Getting ATI Driver To Work? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I get ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 + Integrated Intel HD to work? I have Linux 12.04 LTS installed on my HPDV7T laptop (dual booted with windows 7). My laptop ...
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Random boot error when turning off Radeon graphics at startup

On my Xubuntu 11.10 I placed a command in /etc/rc.local to shutdown the discrete useless power-consuming Radeon graphic card (my laptop has two graphics). This command is named /usr/bin/radeon_off, ...
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How do I turn off the Radeon GPU ono my HP Pavilion DM4?

I have a HP DM4 Beats Edition running Ubuntu 11.10. The HP Pavillion runs on-board Intel graphics as well as Radeon GPU. From what I have read it appears that the Radeon GPU is draining my battery ...
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How do I get ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 + Integrated Intel HD to work?

I have a HP TouchSmart tm2150es with hybrid graphics (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 + Integrated Intel HD). It comes shipped with W7 Home Premium 64 bits. It has an Insyde BIOS. I have certain ...
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AMD Radeon HD 5650M

Ok, so I've got the 5650 as a discrete gpu and integrated 4200. The problem is that I cant switch to 5650. fglrxinfo shows that 4200 is on, but aticonfig -px-list shows that Discrete GPU is active. ...
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Max VRAM supported by open source ATI radeon

I have an ATI HD6370 with dedicated 1G running on Ubuntu 11.10. Following is the output from dmesg sourajit@sourajit:/etc/X11$ sudo dmesg | grep drm [ 5.149765] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 ...
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Hybrid graphics Intel/Radeon HD 6630M

I bought a Dell Vostro 3450 with hybrid GPU and I don't know how to configure properly, I think the fan is running at full speed, also I'm really new in this OS, so I would appreciate all the help you ...
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how to switch back to ATI card after using switcheroo?

I have been using switcheroo to turn off my ATI Radeon HD5650 using the switch: echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch This has worked perfectly. I've added it to /etc/rc.local. The ...
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Switchable Graphic Card, Thinkpad E420s, Intel HD 3000 and AMD Radeon HD 6630M, Ubuntu 11.10 [closed]

On Ubuntu 11.10 64Bit (Intel HD 3000 and AMD Radeon HD 6630M) does not work. System does not recognize Graphic driver. sudo apt-get install mesa-utils DOES NOT HELPED! Additional Hardware are: 1. ...
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How to activate my ATI graphics card? [closed]

had proprietary AMD binary drivers (Catalyst), and wanted to test open source drivers, and did this: sudo /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh # (if it exists) sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx* sudo ...
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System freezes when using vgaswitcheroo [closed]

I'm using hybrid graphics on my notebook. It has an integrated Intel and a discrete Radeon HD 6650M graphic card. When I want to switch to discrete card, the screen freezes and I can't do anything. ...